PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 4
• Germany 3
• Italy 4

• Brussels 4
• Germany (South) 3
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Mechelen 4
• Milan 1
• Rome 1
• Venice 1
• Wittenberg 1

• Manuscript 11

• choirbook 10
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 4
• paper (with parchment) 4
• parchment 3

• oblong 1
• upright 10

• always 4
• none visible 4
• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 7
• brown 3
• dark brown 1
• red 1

• freehand 1
• single rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 1
• 2-part opening 3
• 2-part single page 3
• 3-part opening 7
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part opening 11
• 4-part single page 2
• 5-part opening 5
• 6-part opening 2
• 8-part opening 1

• double 5
• none 6
• single 7
• triple 2

• empty ruled staves on grid 9
• staves not ruled on grid 5
• variable space, not on grid 2

• no separate text 7
• not in dedicated space 4
• provided, in dedicated space 1

• made for complete additional staves 5
• notation and staves extended into margin 8
• notation extended into margin 3
• partial additional staves 4
• staves extended into margin 1

• black 10
• brown 3

• chant (square) 1
• void mensural 11

• absent 9
• present 4

• fair 5
• high 7
• very high 1

• end symbol 1
• repeat signs 3
• signa congruentiae 4
• signes-de-renvoi 7

• Dutch 1
• Flemish 1
• French 3
• German 1
• Italian 2
• Latin 11

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 2
• fully texted with one text 10
• 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 2
• provided with one or two incipits 1
• provided with single incipit 4
• untexted 3

• cursive 2
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 1
• display script 5
• hybrida 1
• textura 3

• fair 6
• high 5
• very high 3

• black 9
• blue 1
• brown 4
• red 8

• no 6
• yes 6

• never 1
• rarely 5

• never 1
• rarely 3

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

• never 1
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 4

• decorated 2
• decorated with grotesque heads 3
• zoomorphic initial 1

• never 1
• normally 11
• occasionally 1
• rarely 2

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 4
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 3

• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• always 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 2

• decorative final long 2
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 2