PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 42

• Bologna 1
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 7
• Florence 17
• Fossombrone 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Milan 2
• Modena 1
• Naples 3
• Padua 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 2
• Siena 3
• Venice 1
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 39
• Printed work 3

• choirbook 30
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 2
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and 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

• paper 27
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 12
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 14
• upright 28

• always 11
• n/a 3
• never 3
• none visible 23
• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 10
• brown 22
• dark brown 7
• gold 2
• red 2
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 4
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 24
• straightedge 4
• triple rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 13
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 9
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 25
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 29
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 11
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 9
• 6-part opening 3
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 2

• double 3
• none 28
• single 16

• empty ruled staves on grid 29
• none 11
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 25
• not in dedicated space 16
• provided, in dedicated space 7

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 31
• notation extended into margin 21
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 23
• brown 20
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 2

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 40

• absent 37
• present 7

• fair 20
• high 13
• n/a 3
• very high 6

• coronae 5
• end symbol 5
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 17
• signes-de-renvoi 17
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 5
• Flemish 1
• French 18
• German 1
• Italian 19
• Latin 35
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 15
• fully texted with one text 30
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 10
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 4
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 18

• Italic 1
• antiqua 1
• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 9
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 3
• rotonda 1
• textura 13
• various 1

• fair 21
• high 16
• n/a 3
• very high 5

• black 18
• blue 2
• brown 22
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 7
• yellow 1

• no 23
• yes 23

• often 1
• rarely 6

• rarely 8

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 6

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

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 8
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 3
• normally 16
• occasionally 5
• often 5
• rarely 4
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 15
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 1
• flourished 11
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 3
• plain initials 8

• always 2
• normally 7
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

• always 2
• normally 3
• occasionally 2
• often 6
• rarely 5
• sometimes 3

• decorated letters 2
• decorative final long 9
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 3
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1