PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 1
• France 1
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 15
• Spain 1

• Belgium 1
• England 1
• Florence 8
• France 6
• Italy 3
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Mechelen 1
• Naples 1
• Netherlands 1
• Paris 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 2
• Segovia 1
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1
• Venice 2

• Manuscript 29
• Printed work 2

• choirbook 21
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 2
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• tablebook 1

• paper 14
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 12
• parchment and paper (mixed) 3

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 10
• upright 20

• always 1
• n/a 2
• never 1
• none visible 21
• normally 3
• rarely 1
• sometimes 3

• black 5
• brown 20
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• double rastrum 8
• freehand 4
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 18
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 5

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part opening 12
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 23
• 3-part score 2
• 3-part single page 10
• 4-part opening 24
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 14
• 5-part opening 8
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• double 2
• none 15
• single 21
• triple 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 28
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 3
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 11
• not in dedicated space 17
• provided, in dedicated space 11

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 10
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 21
• notation extended into margin 18
• other 1
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 11
• staves extended into margin 8

• black 11
• brown 17
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 2
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 3
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 30

• absent 28
• present 4

• fair 15
• high 12
• n/a 2
• poor 1
• very high 3

• coronae 4
• custodes 1
• end symbol 6
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 22
• signa congruentiae 19
• signes-de-renvoi 16
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 8
• English 1
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 19
• Latin 20
• Spanish 5
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 31
• fully texted with one text 17
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 10
• partially texted with one text 21
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 11
• provided with single incipit 19
• provided with two incipits 5
• untexted 21

• antiqua 1
• cursive 5
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 11
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 2
• hybrida 5
• roman 3
• textura 2

• fair 14
• high 13
• n/a 2
• poor 5
• very high 3

• black 11
• blue 1
• brown 16
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 6
• red-brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 9
• yes 29

• never 2
• rarely 6

• always 2
• never 2
• rarely 7

• full borders 2
• 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 3
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• decorated 9
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 4
• normally 9
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 12
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 3
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 3

• normally 6
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 3

• Guide letters only 2

• never 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 7
• sometimes 1

• decorative final long 8
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 3
• ornament 1