PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 39
• Italy (North) 1

• Ferrara 1
• Florence 14
• Fossombrone 2
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 4
• Milan 2
• Modena 2
• Naples 4
• Padua 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 4
• Siena 1
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 7

• Manuscript 29
• Printed work 10

• choirbook 27
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 2
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 27
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 8
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 16
• upright 22

• always 2
• n/a 10
• never 4
• none visible 19
• normally 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 8
• brown 14
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 4
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 7
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 20
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 7

• 1 2
• 10 7
• 11 3
• 12 2
• 2 2
• 3 3
• 4 12
• 5 9
• 6 17
• 7 5
• 8 2
• 9 3

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 22
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 12
• 4-part opening 29
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 15
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 9
• 6-part opening 3
• n/a 1

• double 4
• none 21
• single 20

• empty ruled staves on grid 26
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 6
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 24
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• made for complete additional staves 10
• notation and staves extended into margin 22
• notation extended into margin 16
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 26
• brown 14
• dark brown 1
• gold 1
• red 2
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 38

• absent 34
• present 5

• fair 12
• high 15
• n/a 10
• very high 2

• coronae 12
• custodes 1
• end symbol 6
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 13
• signa congruentiae 24
• signes-de-renvoi 17

• Dutch 5
• French 16
• German 1
• Italian 18
• Latin 29
• Spanish 4

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 14
• fully texted with one text 28
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 11
• provided with single incipit 21
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 19

• Italic 1
• antiqua 1
• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 9
• cursive (italic) 5
• display script 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 6
• rotonda 5
• textura 6

• fair 14
• high 14
• n/a 10
• poor 2
• very high 3

• black 20
• blue 2
• brown 16
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 7
• red-brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 25
• yes 17

• rarely 4

• rarely 5

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

• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• decorated 7
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 5
• normally 12
• occasionally 3
• often 5
• rarely 3
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 17
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 9
• decorated 1
• flourished 8
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 3
• plain initials 1

• always 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 3

• Guide letters only 3

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

• Voice-names 1
• decorated letters 3
• decorative final long 7
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 2
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1