PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 4
• Italy 17
• Spain 2
• Switzerland 1

• Basel 1
• Belgium 1
• Bourges 1
• Cognac 1
• Florence 13
• France 5
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy 2
• Mantua 1
• Naples 1
• Paris 2
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Siena 2
• Spain 2
• Switzerland 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 33

• choirbook 22
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 2
• tablebook 1

• paper 25
• parchment 8

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 13
• upright 19

• always 5
• never 3
• none visible 22
• normally 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 1
• brown 21
• dark brown 6
• light brown 4
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 4
• freehand 2
• single rastrum 21
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 9

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

• 1-part single page 15
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 8
• 3-part opening 22
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part opening 20
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• none 18
• quintuple 1
• single 21

• empty ruled staves on grid 25
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 2
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 11
• not in dedicated space 19
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 11
• notation and staves extended into margin 27
• notation extended into margin 21
• other 1
• partial additional staves 16
• staveline added 9
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 5
• brown 33
• light brown 1
• red 1

• full mensural 1
• void mensural 32

• absent 30
• present 3

• fair 19
• high 11
• poor 3
• very high 2

• coronae 2
• end symbol 6
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 24
• signa congruentiae 18
• signes-de-renvoi 17
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 8
• Flemish 1
• French 27
• German 2
• Italian 18
• Latin 25
• Spanish 7
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 21
• fully texted with one text 24
• fully texted with two texts 3
• partially texted with one or two texts 9
• partially texted with one text 16
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 24
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 21

• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 9
• cursive (humanistic) 5
• cursive (italic) 9
• display script 2
• hybrida 6
• roman 1
• textura 1

• fair 19
• high 13
• poor 6

• black 5
• blue 2
• brown 29
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1
• red 6
• yellow 1

• no 14
• yes 22

• never 1
• rarely 6

• always 1
• never 1
• rarely 5

• full borders 3
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

• always 2
• normally 5
• occasionally 1
• rarely 3

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 7
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 1
• normally 10
• occasionally 4
• often 5
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 11
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• plain initials 7

• normally 8
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 8
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 3

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