PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 39
• Italy (North) 1
• Spain 1

• Belgium 1
• Casale Monferrato 4
• Catalonia 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 15
• France 2
• Girona 1
• Italy 6
• Italy (North) 3
• Mantua 2
• Milan 2
• Modena 6
• Naples 3
• Pisa 1
• Rome 4
• Siena 2
• Spain 1
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 1

• Manuscript 48

• choirbook 33
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 2
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 42
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 4

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 16
• upright 31

• always 6
• never 5
• none visible 31
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• sometimes 3

• black 2
• brown 31
• dark brown 12
• light brown 3
• reddish brown 3

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 11
• freehand 2
• single rastrum 30
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 11

• 10 13
• 11 6
• 12 3
• 2 1
• 3 6
• 4 7
• 5 2
• 6 12
• 7 5
• 8 3
• 9 7

• 1-part single page 16
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 16
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 30
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 13
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 36
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 15
• 5-part opening 15
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 6

• double 6
• none 34
• single 15

• empty ruled staves on grid 39
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 7
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 28
• not in dedicated space 18
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 4
• made for complete additional staves 15
• notation and staves extended into margin 34
• notation extended into margin 25
• partial additional staves 20
• staveline added 10
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 12
• blue 1
• brown 37
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 47

• absent 42
• present 7

• fair 29
• high 18
• poor 1

• coronae 3
• cue notes 2
• end symbol 9
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 18
• signa congruentiae 16
• signes-de-renvoi 26
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 7
• French 24
• German 1
• Italian 22
• Latin 38
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 19
• fully texted with one text 33
• partially texted with one or two texts 7
• partially texted with one text 13
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 10
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 22

• cursive 9
• cursive (bastarda) 5
• cursive (humanistic) 10
• cursive (italic) 12
• display script 2
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• rotonda 1
• textura 8
• various 1

• fair 30
• high 16
• poor 4

• black 6
• blue 2
• brown 48
• dark brown 2
• red 6
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 23
• yes 27

• never 1
• rarely 1

• never 1
• rarely 3

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

• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• rarely 2

• decorated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 6
• normally 22
• occasionally 5
• often 7
• rarely 7
• sometimes 6

• calligraphic 26
• calligraphic with decoration 14
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 15
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 12
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 3
• plain initials 11

• always 1
• normally 8
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 4
• sometimes 5

• Guide letters only 3

• always 2
• normally 4
• occasionally 4
• often 8
• rarely 6
• sometimes 4

• Voice-names 1
• decorated letters 5
• decorative final long 12
• embellished final barline 6
• end-symbol 6
• littera notabilior 3
• signes-de-renvoi 1