PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 32

• Belgium 1
• Bologna 1
• Florence 18
• France 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 4
• Mantua 2
• Milan 1
• Naples 4
• Padua 1
• Pisa 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 2
• Siena 1
• Venice 2

• Manuscript 32
• Printed work 4

• choirbook 22
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 24
• paper (with parchment) 4
• parchment 6
• parchment (with paper) 1
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 22
• upright 13

• always 3
• n/a 4
• never 6
• none visible 20
• normally 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 7
• brown 16
• dark brown 9
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 7
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 15
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 14

• 1 1
• 10 1
• 2 1
• 3 6
• 4 10
• 5 5
• 6 16
• 7 5
• 8 4
• 9 3

• 1-part single page 12
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 22
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 26
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 14
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1

• double 1
• none 27
• single 13

• empty ruled staves on grid 23
• left between voice parts as part of grid 3
• none 10
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 14
• not in dedicated space 17
• provided, in dedicated space 11

• made for complete additional staves 8
• notation and staves extended into margin 21
• notation extended into margin 15
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 11
• staves extended into margin 6

• black 17
• blue 1
• brown 18
• dark brown 4
• gold 3
• light brown 2
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 35

• absent 34
• present 3

• fair 23
• high 7
• n/a 4
• very high 3

• coronae 5
• custodes 1
• end symbol 8
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 19
• signa congruentiae 12
• signes-de-renvoi 15
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 2
• French 20
• German 1
• Italian 36
• Latin 25
• Spanish 8

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 22
• fully texted with one text 19
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 6
• partially texted with one text 15
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 26
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 21

• Italic 1
• cursive 6
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 10
• cursive (italic) 12
• display script 1
• hybrida 1
• roman 3
• rotonda 2
• textura 1

• fair 23
• high 7
• n/a 4
• poor 5
• very high 1

• black 14
• blue 2
• brown 22
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• grey 1
• light brown 1
• red 5
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 16
• yes 24

• often 1
• rarely 2

• rarely 2

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1

• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• decorated 3
• historiated 1

• always 5
• normally 12
• occasionally 1
• often 4
• rarely 3
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 14
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 2
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 6
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 6

• always 1
• normally 5
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 3
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 7
• embellished final barline 2
• end-symbol 5
• littera notabilior 2
• signa congruentiae 1