PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 1
• Czech Republic 1
• France 2
• Great Britain 2
• Italy 8
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Bruges 1
• Catalonia 1
• Cognac 1
• England 1
• Eton 1
• Florence 4
• France 3
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 2
• Paris 1
• Portugal 1
• Prague 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Siena 1
• Spain 2
• Toledo 1
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 24

• choirbook 22
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1

• paper 13
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 7
• parchment and paper (mixed) 2

• oblong 4
• upright 20

• always 2
• never 2
• none visible 12
• normally 6
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 4
• brown 11
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 2
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 16
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 2

• 1 1
• 10 6
• 11 5
• 12 1
• 13 1
• 14 1
• 15 1
• 16 1
• 17 1
• 2 1
• 3 1
• 4 2
• 5 3
• 6 10
• 7 5
• 8 11
• 9 7

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 21
• 3-part score 3
• 3-part single page 13
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 21
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 11
• 5-part consecutive 2
• 5-part opening 8
• 5-part single page 3
• 6-part consecutive 1
• 6-part opening 2
• 7-part consecutive 1
• 8-part consecutive 1
• 8-part opening 2
• 9-part consecutive 1
• 9-part opening 1

• all staves indented 1
• double 3
• none 10
• single 18

• empty ruled staves on grid 23
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 2
• staves not ruled on grid 3

• no separate text 2
• not in dedicated space 24
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 5
• made for complete additional staves 13
• notation and staves extended into margin 19
• notation extended into margin 17
• other 2
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 10
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 9
• blue 1
• brown 14
• dark brown 4
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 2

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 5
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 23

• absent 16
• present 9

• fair 15
• high 7
• poor 2
• very high 1

• coronae 3
• end symbol 10
• pointers 6
• repeat signs 14
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 15
• space-filler 4

• Czech 1
• Dutch 6
• English 1
• Flemish 1
• French 15
• Italian 11
• Latin 20
• Spanish 6
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 14
• fully texted with one text 22
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 3
• partially texted with one or two texts 6
• partially texted with one text 16
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 18
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 19

• cursive 6
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 5
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• rotonda 1
• textura 4

• fair 15
• high 5
• poor 5
• very high 1

• black 9
• blue 2
• brown 14
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 7

• no 10
• yes 17

• never 3
• rarely 4

• always 1
• never 3
• rarely 2

• full borders 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 1

• always 2
• normally 1
• often 1
• sometimes 2

• decorated 4
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• normally 7
• occasionally 4
• often 5
• rarely 7
• sometimes 6

• calligraphic 16
• calligraphic with decoration 9
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 3
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 6
• plain initials 5

• normally 2
• occasionally 3
• often 5
• rarely 4
• sometimes 4

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• banner 2
• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 6
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 3
• signes-de-renvoi 1