PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 2
• Italy 12
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Catalonia 1
• Florence 7
• France 4
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy 3
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Naples 2
• Paris 2
• Pisa 1
• Rome 2
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 1
• Switzerland 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 24

• choirbook 16
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 2

• paper 20
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 3

• oblong 11
• upright 13

• always 2
• never 5
• none visible 14
• normally 2
• sometimes 1

• black 1
• brown 10
• dark brown 9
• light brown 3
• red 2
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 2
• single rastrum 14
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 7

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

• 1-part single page 11
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part single page 8
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 18
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 15
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• none 17
• single 11

• empty ruled staves on grid 17
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 1
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 8
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 6
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 17
• notation extended into margin 12
• other 1
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 4
• brown 19
• dark brown 3
• light brown 2

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 23

• absent 20
• present 4

• fair 16
• high 8
• poor 1

• coronae 2
• end symbol 6
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 9
• signes-de-renvoi 12
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 1
• French 20
• German 1
• Italian 15
• Latin 19
• Spanish 7

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 17
• fully texted with one text 16
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 11
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 19
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 16

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

• fair 16
• high 9
• poor 5

• black 4
• blue 1
• brown 24
• dark brown 3
• light brown 1
• red 3
• yellow 1

• no 9
• yes 18

• never 2
• rarely 1

• always 2
• never 2
• rarely 1

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

• always 2
• normally 1
• rarely 1

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 3
• flourished 1

• always 2
• normally 10
• occasionally 3
• often 4
• rarely 3
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 10
• calligraphic with decoration 10
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• plain initials 8

• normally 4
• occasionally 2
• often 3
• rarely 3
• sometimes 3

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 5
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2