PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Germany 1
• Italy 19
• Spain 1
• Switzerland 1

• Augsburg 1
• Basel 1
• Bologna 1
• Catalonia 2
• Florence 11
• France 1
• Girona 1
• Italy 2
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 2
• Naples 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 1
• Spain 1
• Venice 3

• Manuscript 24
• Printed work 5

• choirbook 19
• choirbook (single quire(s)) 1
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• tablebook 1

• paper 19
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 7
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 13
• upright 15

• always 1
• n/a 5
• never 4
• none visible 16
• normally 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 7
• brown 14
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• double rastrum 7
• freehand 4
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 16
• triple rastrum 6

• 1 1
• 10 5
• 11 1
• 12 3
• 2 1
• 3 2
• 4 6
• 5 2
• 6 16
• 7 6
• 8 5
• 9 3

• 1-part single page 13
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part opening 21
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 10
• 4-part opening 23
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 11
• 5-part opening 8
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 1

• double 6
• none 13
• single 19

• empty ruled staves on grid 23
• left between voice parts as part of grid 4
• none 3

• no separate text 16
• not in dedicated space 14
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• made for complete additional staves 9
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 20
• notation extended into margin 17
• other 2
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 11
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 14
• blue 1
• brown 14
• dark brown 4
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 28

• absent 27
• present 4

• fair 17
• high 5
• n/a 5
• poor 3
• very high 1

• coronae 9
• end symbol 7
• none 2
• pointers 6
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 17
• signes-de-renvoi 16
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 1
• French 16
• German 2
• Italian 15
• Latin 23
• Spanish 7

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 16
• fully texted with one text 23
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 7
• partially texted with one text 29
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 12
• provided with single incipit 23
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 24

• cursive 6
• cursive (German) 2
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 5
• cursive (italic) 7
• display script 1
• hybrida 2
• roman 2
• rotonda 5
• textura 2

• fair 13
• high 6
• n/a 5
• poor 7
• very high 1

• black 14
• blue 2
• brown 15
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 4
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 2
• yellow 1

• no 17
• yes 16

• never 3
• rarely 2

• never 3
• rarely 3

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

• normally 2
• often 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 4
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 1
• normally 8
• occasionally 1
• often 5
• rarely 6
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 10
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 3
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 3

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

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 5
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 5