PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 57

• Bologna 3
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 7
• Florence 20
• Fossombrone 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 3
• Mantua 4
• Milan 4
• Modena 3
• Naples 4
• Padua 2
• Pisa 1
• Rome 4
• Siena 2
• Venice 4
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 52
• Printed work 5

• choirbook 41
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 2
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 3
• partbooks (complete set) 7
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 40
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 13
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 19
• upright 37

• always 12
• n/a 5
• never 6
• none visible 32
• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 12
• brown 28
• dark brown 9
• gold 2
• light brown 3
• red 3
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 9
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 33
• straightedge 4
• triple rastrum 15

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

• 1-part single page 16
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 19
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 11
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 34
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 14
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 40
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 14
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 15
• 6-part opening 6
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 3

• double 6
• none 39
• single 21

• empty ruled staves on grid 41
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 11
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 37
• not in dedicated space 19
• provided, in dedicated space 7

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 14
• notation and staves extended into margin 39
• notation extended into margin 25
• partial additional staves 15
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 32
• brown 27
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 2

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 4
• not specified 1
• void mensural 54

• absent 50
• present 9

• fair 27
• high 19
• n/a 5
• very high 6

• coronae 7
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 7
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 20
• signa congruentiae 23
• signes-de-renvoi 24
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 1
• French 22
• German 1
• Italian 23
• Latin 47
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 18
• fully texted with one text 42
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 9
• provided with single incipit 31
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 25

• antiqua 2
• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 9
• cursive (italic) 11
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 3
• rotonda 5
• textura 16
• various 1

• fair 27
• high 20
• n/a 5
• poor 2
• very high 5

• black 24
• blue 2
• brown 30
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 8
• yellow 1

• no 35
• yes 25

• often 1
• rarely 8

• rarely 10

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 3
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 6

• normally 5
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 10
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 8
• normally 20
• occasionally 5
• often 7
• rarely 5
• sometimes 5

• calligraphic 25
• calligraphic with decoration 9
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 10
• decorated 1
• flourished 14
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 4
• plain initials 10

• always 3
• normally 8
• occasionally 3
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

• always 2
• normally 6
• occasionally 2
• often 6
• rarely 5
• sometimes 6

• decorated letters 4
• decorative final long 11
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 4
• end-symbol 5
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1