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#### 7.7.4 Ancient clefs

LilyPond supports a variety of clefs, many of them ancient.

The following table shows all ancient clefs that are supported via the `\clef` command. Some of the clefs use the same glyph, but differ only with respect to the line they are printed on. In such cases, a trailing number in the name is used to enumerate these clefs. Still, you can manually force a clef glyph to be typeset on an arbitrary line, as described in Clef. The note printed to the right side of each clef in the example column denotes the `c'` with respect to that clef.

Description | Supported Clefs | Example
modern style mensural C clef | `neomensural-c1`, `neomensural-c2`, `neomensural-c3`, `neomensural-c4` |
petrucci style mensural C clefs, for use on different staff lines (the examples show the 2nd staff line C clef) | `petrucci-c1`, `petrucci-c2`, `petrucci-c3`, `petrucci-c4`, `petrucci-c5` |
petrucci style mensural F clef | `petrucci-f` |
petrucci style mensural G clef | `petrucci-g` |
historic style mensural C clef | `mensural-c1`, `mensural-c2`, `mensural-c3`, `mensural-c4` |
historic style mensural F clef | `mensural-f` |
historic style mensural G clef | `mensural-g` |
Editio Vaticana style do clef | `vaticana-do1`, `vaticana-do2`, `vaticana-do3` |
Editio Vaticana style fa clef | `vaticana-fa1`, `vaticana-fa2` |
Editio Medicaea style do clef | `medicaea-do1`, `medicaea-do2`, `medicaea-do3` |
Editio Medicaea style fa clef | `medicaea-fa1`, `medicaea-fa2` |
historic style hufnagel do clef | `hufnagel-do1`, `hufnagel-do2`, `hufnagel-do3` |
historic style hufnagel fa clef | `hufnagel-fa1`, `hufnagel-fa2` |
historic style hufnagel combined do/fa clef | `hufnagel-do-fa` |

Modern style means “as is typeset in contemporary editions of transcribed mensural music”.

Petrucci style means “inspired by printings published by the famous engraver Petrucci (1466-1539)”.

Historic style means “as was typeset or written in historic editions (other than those of Petrucci)”.

Editio XXX style means “as is/was printed in Editio XXX”.

Petrucci used C clefs with differently balanced left-side vertical beams, depending on which staff line it is printed.

##### See also

In this manual: see Clef.

##### Bugs

The mensural g clef is mapped to the Petrucci g clef.

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