PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 42

• Bologna 1
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 3
• Florence 19
• Fossombrone 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 3
• Milan 3
• Modena 1
• Naples 1
• Padua 2
• Pisa 1
• Rome 2
• Siena 2
• Venice 4
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 38
• Printed work 4

• choirbook 30
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 6
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 30
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 8
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 17
• upright 25

• always 8
• n/a 4
• never 5
• none visible 24
• normally 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 6
• brown 23
• dark brown 8
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 6
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 21
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 13

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

• 1-part single page 13
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 13
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 25
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 30
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 11
• 5-part opening 11
• 6-part opening 3
• n/a 2

• double 3
• none 27
• single 16

• empty ruled staves on grid 29
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 9
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 27
• not in dedicated space 16
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 12
• notation and staves extended into margin 30
• notation extended into margin 18
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 21
• brown 22
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 2

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

• absent 39
• present 5

• fair 21
• high 14
• n/a 4
• very high 3

• coronae 6
• custodes 1
• end symbol 6
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 17
• signes-de-renvoi 15
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 5
• Flemish 1
• French 19
• German 1
• Italian 21
• Latin 33
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 17
• fully texted with one text 30
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 11
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 24
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 19

• antiqua 1
• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• cursive (italic) 10
• display script 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 4
• rotonda 3
• textura 9
• various 1

• fair 23
• high 16
• n/a 4
• very high 2

• black 15
• blue 2
• brown 24
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 8
• yellow 1

• no 23
• yes 23

• often 1
• rarely 4

• rarely 5

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 2
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 2

• normally 4
• rarely 4
• sometimes 1

• decorated 6
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 5
• normally 13
• occasionally 5
• often 4
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 16
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated 1
• flourished 9
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 3
• plain initials 8

• always 3
• normally 7
• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

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

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