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Many thanks to Davitt and Tilman for their insightful postings on this topic.

As it happens I recently learned Zachow's Allemande in b minor (from the Moeller MS). It is an extraordinary piece, and I can tell you that you need to employ some pretty extraordinary fingerings to play it. 

The problem with fingering charts is that they seem to indicate what should be done in everyday situations. But from our perspective, several centuries after this music was written, we have access to all the surviving repertoire, and many players tend to pick and choose among the most sophisticated, and often rule-breaking, pieces. If these composers felt able to be so creative with their brains, it seems unlikely that they refused to be creative with their hands. 

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