I expect it can be hard to read old manuscripts and styles of notation may have changed. Do you re-write it for performance? I know there are good tools for that these days. It's not something I have much use for though.
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No, I use the manuscripts. I have been reading from them for a few decades, so I'm mostly comfortable with them... so much so, that when I read modern prints (even ones from the 20th century... I find them stark and cold, and lacking all the extra implied information that comes from the old prints.