PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 30
• Italy (North) 1

• Bologna 3
• Casale Monferrato 4
• Ferrara 3
• Florence 9
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Modena 1
• Naples 2
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 3
• Siena 2
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 30

• choirbook 26
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 1

• paper 19
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 8
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 7
• upright 23

• always 7
• never 5
• none visible 15
• normally 2
• often 1
• sometimes 1

• black 8
• brown 15
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 4

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 4
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 23
• triple rastrum 5

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

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part opening 20
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 27
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 8
• 5-part opening 11
• 6-part opening 3
• n/a 1

• double 2
• none 22
• single 9

• empty ruled staves on grid 24
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 2
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 20
• not in dedicated space 10
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 22
• notation extended into margin 15
• partial additional staves 14
• staveline added 5
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 16
• brown 15
• dark brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 29

• absent 24
• present 8

• fair 19
• high 12
• very high 1

• coronae 2
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 8
• signa congruentiae 8
• signes-de-renvoi 17
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 1
• Flemish 2
• French 11
• Italian 13
• Latin 25
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 7
• fully texted with one text 21
• partially texted with one or two texts 1
• partially texted with one text 7
• provided with one or two incipits 2
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 14

• antiqua 2
• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 11
• cursive (italic) 4
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• roman 1
• rotonda 1
• textura 6
• various 1

• fair 21
• high 8
• poor 2
• very high 1

• black 13
• blue 2
• brown 18
• dark brown 1
• grey 1
• red 4
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• no 18
• yes 14

• rarely 1

• rarely 4

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

• normally 1
• rarely 2

• decorated 2
• flourished 1

• always 6
• normally 11
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 18
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 9
• flourished 9
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 5

• always 2
• normally 5
• occasionally 3
• sometimes 3

• normally 3
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 5

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 8
• embellished final barline 2
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1