PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 5
• France 2
• Italy 11
• Spain 2

• Bourges 1
• Brussels 2
• Florence 6
• France 3
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 5
• Milan 1
• Naples 1
• Padua 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Savoy, France 1
• Seville 2
• Spain 1
• Venice 2

• Manuscript 23
• Printed work 2

• choirbook 24
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1

• paper 12
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 11

• oblong 5
• upright 20

• always 2
• n/a 2
• never 5
• none visible 11
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 2

• black 7
• brown 11
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 3
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 16
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 5

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

• 1-part single page 9
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part opening 25
• 3-part single page 7
• 4-part opening 24
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 11
• 6-part opening 4

• double 5
• none 12
• quintuple 1
• single 18
• triple 4

• empty ruled staves on grid 24
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 5
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 13
• not in dedicated space 13
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 12
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 19
• notation extended into margin 15
• other 2
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 11
• brown 13
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 24

• absent 22
• present 3

• fair 8
• high 10
• n/a 2
• very high 7

• coronae 4
• end symbol 5
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 16
• signa congruentiae 16
• signes-de-renvoi 19
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 2
• French 19
• German 1
• Italian 10
• Latin 22
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 12
• fully texted with one text 22
• fully texted with two or more texts 4
• 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 18
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 17

• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 10
• cursive (humanistic) 1
• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 7
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 5
• roman 2
• rotonda 4

• fair 7
• high 14
• n/a 2
• poor 3
• very high 5

• black 11
• blue 1
• brown 12
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 8
• yellow 1

• no 11
• yes 17

• 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 5
• sometimes 1

• decorated 8
• flourished 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 2
• normally 8
• occasionally 3
• often 4
• rarely 5
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 11
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 2

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

• Guide letters only 2

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

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