PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 1
• England 1
• Italy 15

• Bologna 2
• Brussels 1
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Florence 3
• Italy 3
• Mechelen 1
• Milan 3
• Modena 3
• Naples 1
• Northamptonshire 1
• Venice 1

• Manuscript 21

• choirbook 14
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• printed book with interpolated polyphony 1

• paper 17
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 3

• oblong 4
• upright 17

• none visible 21
• rarely 1

• black 6
• brown 14
• dark brown 1
• gold 1
• red 1

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 7
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 14
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 1

• 1 2
• 10 5
• 11 6
• 12 3
• 13 2
• 2 1
• 3 1
• 4 6
• 5 2
• 6 2
• 7 3
• 8 3
• 9 4

• 1-part single page 5
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part single page 2
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 10
• 3-part single page 2
• 4-part opening 13
• 4-part single page 4
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 8
• 6-part opening 2
• 7-part opening 1
• n/a 2

• double 3
• none 15
• single 5
• triple 2

• empty ruled staves on grid 20
• none 2
• staves not ruled on grid 1
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 19
• not in dedicated space 3
• provided, in dedicated space 1

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 5
• notation and staves extended into margin 13
• notation extended into margin 5
• partial additional staves 6
• staveline added 2
• staves extended into margin 1

• black 10
• brown 9
• dark brown 3
• gold 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 21

• absent 20
• present 2

• fair 7
• high 11
• poor 1
• very high 2

• cue notes 1
• repeat signs 3
• signa congruentiae 6
• signes-de-renvoi 5

• Dutch 2
• French 7
• Italian 2
• Latin 18
• Spanish 1

• fully texted with one or two texts 6
• fully texted with one text 18
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 1
• partially texted with one text 3
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 1
• provided with single incipit 5
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 6

• antiqua 2
• cursive 1
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• display script 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• textura 6
• various 1

• fair 7
• high 11
• very high 2

• black 7
• brown 11
• dark brown 1
• gold 1
• red 2

• no 13
• yes 9

• never 1
• rarely 3

• never 1
• rarely 2

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

• never 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 4
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 2
• normally 4
• occasionally 2
• often 7
• rarely 2
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 6
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 3

• always 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• always 2
• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 2
• often 5
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated letters 3
• decorative final long 6
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 4
• littera notabilior 1