PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 1
• Italy 9

• Belgium 1
• Florence 4
• France 3
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Siena 1
• Spain 1
• Venice 1

• Manuscript 12
• Printed work 3

• choirbook 10
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 11
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 3

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 8
• upright 6

• always 2
• n/a 4
• never 2
• none visible 7
• normally 1
• sometimes 1

• black 4
• brown 10
• dark brown 1
• gold 1

• double rastrum 3
• freehand 1
• printed staves 1
• single rastrum 8
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 2

• 10 2
• 2 3
• 3 3
• 4 7
• 5 4
• 6 7
• 7 3
• 8 3
• 9 1

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part opening 2
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 4
• 3-part opening 9
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part opening 11
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 1
• 5-part single page 1

• none 4
• single 15

• empty ruled staves on grid 12
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 2
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 3
• not in dedicated space 6
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• made for complete additional staves 3
• notation and staves extended into margin 11
• notation extended into margin 7
• other 1
• partial additional staves 6
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 7
• brown 10
• gold 1

• void mensural 15

• absent 15

• fair 6
• high 4
• n/a 3
• very high 2

• coronae 4
• end symbol 2
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 10
• signa congruentiae 8
• signes-de-renvoi 6

• Dutch 3
• French 9
• German 2
• Italian 15
• Latin 9
• Spanish 2

• fully texted with one or two texts 11
• fully texted with one text 11
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 8
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 12
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 10

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

• fair 5
• high 6
• n/a 3
• poor 2

• black 8
• brown 8
• dark brown 2
• red 2
• yellow 1

• no 7
• yes 10

• often 1
• rarely 3

• always 1
• rarely 1

• full borders 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1

• always 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 1

• decorated 3
• historiated 1

• always 2
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• often 2

• calligraphic 5
• calligraphic with decoration 2
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 3
• flourished 1
• plain initials 1

• normally 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 2

• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 2

• decorative final long 2
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 3