PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 6
• France 2
• Italy 13
• Spain 2

• Bourges 1
• Brussels 3
• Florence 6
• France 3
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 6
• Milan 1
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Savoy, France 1
• Seville 2
• Spain 1
• Venice 3

• Manuscript 26
• Printed work 2

• choirbook 26
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1

• paper 15
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 11

• oblong 5
• upright 23

• always 2
• n/a 2
• never 6
• none visible 12
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 2

• black 10
• brown 12
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 3
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 19
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 5

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

• 1-part single page 9
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 10
• 2-part single page 9
• 3-part opening 28
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part opening 27
• 4-part single page 11
• 5-part opening 13
• 6-part opening 5

• double 6
• none 15
• quintuple 1
• single 19
• triple 5

• empty ruled staves on grid 27
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 6
• variable space, not on grid 2

• no separate text 14
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 14
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 20
• notation extended into margin 16
• other 2
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 14
• brown 14
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 27

• absent 24
• present 4

• fair 10
• high 11
• n/a 2
• very high 7

• coronae 4
• end symbol 6
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 16
• signa congruentiae 16
• signes-de-renvoi 22
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 2
• French 20
• German 1
• Italian 11
• Latin 25
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 12
• fully texted with one text 23
• fully texted with two or more texts 5
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 12
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 19
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 18

• cursive 6
• cursive (bastarda) 11
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 8
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 5
• roman 2
• rotonda 4

• fair 9
• high 14
• n/a 2
• poor 3
• very high 6

• black 14
• blue 1
• brown 13
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 9
• yellow 1

• no 12
• yes 19

• rarely 9

• always 2
• never 1
• often 1
• rarely 9

• full and partial borders 1
• full borders 5
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: one-sided 2
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 2

• always 2
• never 1
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 1

• decorated 8
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 2
• normally 9
• occasionally 4
• often 4
• rarely 5
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 13
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 2

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 8
• sometimes 3

• Guide letters only 2

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

• banner 1
• decorative final long 2
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 1