PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 1
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 6
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Catalonia 1
• England 1
• Florence 4
• France 6
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Paris 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 17

• choirbook 15
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 8
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 6
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 4
• upright 12

• never 1
• none visible 11
• normally 3
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 2
• brown 9
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 13
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 4

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

• 1-part single page 5
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 8
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 17
• 3-part score 2
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part opening 15
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 8
• 5-part opening 6
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• double 1
• none 8
• single 13

• empty ruled staves on grid 17
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 2

• no separate text 3
• not in dedicated space 14
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 7
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 16
• notation extended into margin 12
• other 1
• partial additional staves 10
• staveline added 10
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 2
• brown 12
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 1

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 3
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 17

• absent 12
• present 5

• fair 10
• high 6
• poor 1
• very high 2

• coronae 2
• end symbol 6
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 9
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 5
• English 1
• Flemish 1
• French 12
• Italian 10
• Latin 12
• Spanish 3
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 17
• fully texted with one text 13
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 5
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 14
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 15
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 16

• cursive 5
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 7
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 2
• hybrida 3
• roman 1

• fair 9
• high 6
• poor 5
• very high 1

• black 3
• brown 12
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 1

• no 5
• yes 15

• never 3
• rarely 4

• always 2
• never 3
• rarely 4

• full borders 2
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 1

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

• decorated 6
• flourished 1
• plain initials 1

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

• calligraphic 8
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 2
• flourished 1
• plain initials 3

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

• Guide letters only 1

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 1

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