PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 4
• France 2
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 14
• Spain 3

• Antwerp 1
• Belgium 1
• Bourges 1
• Bruges 1
• Brussels 2
• England 1
• Ferrara 2
• Flanders 1
• Florence 9
• France 6
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Mechelen 2
• Naples 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1
• Vic 1

• Manuscript 32

• chansonnier 1
• choirbook 28
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 15
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 14
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 7
• upright 24

• always 5
• never 3
• none visible 17
• normally 5
• rarely 2
• sometimes 2

• black 9
• brown 16
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 6
• freehand 4
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 24
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 5

• 1 2
• 10 9
• 11 5
• 12 2
• 2 3
• 3 4
• 4 8
• 5 5
• 6 15
• 7 10
• 8 15
• 9 9

• 1-part single page 9
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 10
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 12
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 30
• 3-part score 3
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part opening 27
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 12
• 5-part opening 12
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 5
• 8-part opening 1

• double 7
• none 17
• quadruple 1
• quintuple 1
• single 22
• triple 2

• empty ruled staves on grid 30
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 3
• staves not ruled on grid 4
• variable space, not on grid 2

• no separate text 11
• not in dedicated space 20
• provided, in dedicated space 10

• Indentation for initials filled in 4
• made for complete additional staves 11
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 27
• notation extended into margin 22
• other 1
• partial additional staves 16
• staveline added 12
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 12
• blue 1
• brown 19
• dark brown 4
• gold 2
• light brown 3
• red 2

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 2
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 32

• absent 28
• present 4

• fair 15
• high 14
• poor 1
• very high 5

• coronae 6
• end symbol 11
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 32
• signa congruentiae 22
• signes-de-renvoi 22
• space-filler 3

• Dutch 11
• English 1
• Flemish 1
• French 23
• German 1
• Italian 16
• Latin 26
• Spanish 5
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 3
• fully texted with one or two texts 20
• fully texted with one text 27
• fully texted with two or more texts 3
• fully texted with two texts 6
• partially texted with one or two texts 10
• partially texted with one text 20
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 11
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 24

• cursive 7
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 12
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 5
• display script 4
• hybrida 6
• roman 2
• textura 2

• fair 12
• high 15
• poor 7
• very high 3

• black 11
• blue 1
• brown 18
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 8
• yellow 1

• no 12
• yes 24

• always 1
• never 3
• rarely 10

• always 2
• never 3
• rarely 10

• full borders 5
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 5

• always 3
• never 1
• normally 6
• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 4
• sometimes 3

• decorated 12
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• trompe l'oeil 1
• zoomorphic initial 3

• always 1
• normally 11
• occasionally 4
• often 6
• rarely 9
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 17
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 3
• flourished 5
• historiated 1
• plain initials 5

• normally 7
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 10
• sometimes 6

• Guide letters only 3

• never 1
• normally 3
• occasionally 3
• often 1
• rarely 4
• sometimes 1

• banner 1
• decorative final long 4
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 4