PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 17
• Germany 1
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 13
• Switzerland 1

• Antwerp 1
• Basel 1
• Brussels 10
• Casale Monferrato 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 6
• Germany (South) 1
• Italy 2
• London 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 15
• Milan 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 1
• Venice 1
• Verona 1
• Wittenberg 1

• Manuscript 40

• choirbook 31
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 17
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 20
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 7
• upright 33

• always 16
• never 3
• none visible 15
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 4
• sometimes 1

• black 26
• brown 13
• dark brown 6
• red 1

• double rastrum 1
• freehand 1
• printed staves 1
• single rastrum 32
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 5

• 1 2
• 10 26
• 11 14
• 12 5
• 13 2
• 2 3
• 3 7
• 4 4
• 5 8
• 6 12
• 7 15
• 8 20
• 9 23

• 1-part single page 15
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 16
• 2-part single page 4
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 25
• 3-part single page 3
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 30
• 4-part single page 4
• 5-part opening 22
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 8
• 7-part opening 1
• n/a 1

• double 25
• none 16
• quadruple 3
• single 23
• triple 14

• empty ruled staves on grid 33
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 7
• staves not ruled 3
• staves not ruled on grid 18
• variable space, not on grid 4

• no separate text 33
• not in dedicated space 7
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 26
• notation extended into margin 12
• partial additional staves 14
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 1

• black 29
• brown 9
• dark brown 3
• light brown 1
• red 5

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 39

• absent 34
• present 8

• fair 10
• high 13
• poor 1
• very high 17

• coronae 3
• custodes 1
• end symbol 4
• repeat signs 12
• signa congruentiae 23
• signes-de-renvoi 26
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 1
• Flemish 3
• French 16
• German 1
• Italian 8
• Latin 36

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 10
• fully texted with one text 32
• fully texted with two or more texts 12
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 1
• partially texted with one text 3
• provided with one or two incipits 3
• provided with single incipit 11
• untexted 6

• antiqua 1
• cursive 4
• cursive (German) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 24
• cursive (humanistic) 1
• cursive (italic) 6
• display script 19
• hybrida 1
• roman 1
• textura 7

• fair 11
• high 15
• poor 1
• very high 17

• black 28
• blue 2
• brown 12
• dark brown 1
• red 25

• no 16
• yes 26

• always 1
• never 2
• rarely 21

• never 4
• occasionally 1
• rarely 17

• full and partial borders 2
• full borders 4
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 2
• partial borders: one-sided 4
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

• never 4
• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 19
• sometimes 1

• decorated 4
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• trompe l'oeil 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• never 1
• normally 40
• occasionally 9
• often 2
• rarely 8
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 15
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 10
• decorated 3
• decorated with grotesque heads 4
• flourished 6
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 7

• never 11
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 9
• sometimes 1

• always 1
• never 14
• normally 2
• occasionally 4
• often 2
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorative final long 4
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 3
• ornament 1