PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 8
• France 1
• Italy 19
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Bologna 1
• Bruges 1
• Brussels 5
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 13
• France 6
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Mechelen 7
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 2
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 39

• choirbook 31
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1

• paper 21
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 15
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• oblong 10
• upright 29

• always 5
• never 5
• none visible 21
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 10
• brown 17
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• light brown 4
• red 2
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 26
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 9

• 1 1
• 10 12
• 11 3
• 12 1
• 2 4
• 3 5
• 4 5
• 5 5
• 6 14
• 7 15
• 8 18
• 9 11

• 1-part single page 15
• 2-part opening 13
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part opening 32
• 3-part score 2
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part opening 29
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 14
• 5-part opening 12
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 3
• 8-part opening 1

• double 8
• none 20
• quadruple 1
• single 23
• triple 5

• empty ruled staves on grid 32
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 5
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 7

• no separate text 20
• not in dedicated space 21
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 12
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 31
• notation extended into margin 20
• other 1
• partial additional staves 15
• staveline added 9
• staves extended into margin 7

• black 16
• brown 21
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 2

• full mensural 3
• void mensural 38

• absent 36
• present 4

• fair 18
• high 17
• poor 1
• very high 6

• coronae 2
• end symbol 8
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 25
• signa congruentiae 23
• signes-de-renvoi 26
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 9
• Flemish 6
• French 39
• German 1
• Italian 21
• Latin 34
• Spanish 10
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 24
• fully texted with one text 27
• fully texted with two or more texts 7
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 9
• partially texted with one text 19
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 30
• provided with two incipits 5
• untexted 26

• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 15
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• cursive (italic) 8
• display script 8
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 6
• roman 2
• textura 1

• fair 19
• high 16
• poor 6
• very high 5

• black 16
• blue 2
• brown 21
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 10
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 14
• yes 31

• never 2
• rarely 11

• always 2
• never 3
• rarely 12

• full and partial borders 1
• full borders 4
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: one-sided 4
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

• always 3
• never 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 1
• rarely 9
• sometimes 1

• decorated 10
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 2
• normally 18
• occasionally 4
• often 5
• rarely 7
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 13
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 7

• always 1
• never 4
• normally 5
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 9
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

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

• banner 1
• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 3
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 2
• signes-de-renvoi 1