PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Germany 6
• Great Britain 4
• Italy 8
• Netherlands 1
• Spain 1

• Belgium 1
• Catalonia 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 1
• France 3
• Germany (South) 4
• Halberstadt 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Leipzig 2
• London 4
• Mantua 1
• Naples 2
• Pisa 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Switzerland 1
• Toledo 1
• Torgau 1
• Utrecht 1
• Venice 1
• Wittenberg 1

• Manuscript 28

• choirbook 15
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• poetry collection with some notated music 1
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• single leaf 1

• paper 17
• paper (with parchment) 4
• parchment 6
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• oblong 7
• upright 21

• always 6
• never 12
• none visible 9
• normally 1
• sometimes 2

• black 14
• brown 13
• dark brown 4
• light brown 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• freehand 2
• printed staves 4
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 20
• straightedge 5
• triple rastrum 1

• 10 8
• 11 6
• 12 2
• 13 2
• 14 2
• 2 1
• 3 5
• 4 1
• 5 3
• 6 8
• 7 7
• 8 7
• 9 10

• 1-part single page 6
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 5
• 2-part single page 12
• 3-part consecutive 4
• 3-part opening 15
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 17
• 4-part single page 8
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 3

• double 5
• none 14
• single 15
• triple 1
• varies 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 20
• left below voice parts as part of grid 2
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 6
• staves not ruled on grid 4

• no separate text 16
• not in dedicated space 10
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 16
• notation extended into margin 7
• other 2
• partial additional staves 8
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 17
• brown 14
• dark brown 2
• light brown 2
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• German hufnagel 1
• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 28

• absent 23
• present 10

• fair 28
• high 3
• poor 4

• coronae 1
• end symbol 6
• none 1
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 8
• signa congruentiae 6
• signes-de-renvoi 13
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 4
• Flemish 1
• French 11
• German 5
• Italian 10
• Latin 26
• Spanish 5
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 10
• fully texted with one text 23
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 9
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 12
• varies 2

• cursive 11
• cursive (German) 2
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• display script 3
• hybrida 2
• textura 7

• fair 24
• high 8
• poor 2

• black 18
• blue 1
• brown 15
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1
• red 7
• red-brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 16
• yes 18

• always 1
• never 5
• rarely 4

• never 3
• rarely 3

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

• always 2
• never 3
• normally 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 4
• flourished 2
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 4
• never 2
• normally 9
• occasionally 2
• often 4
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 14
• calligraphic with decoration 9
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 5
• flourished 4
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 7

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

• Guide letters only 1

• never 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 3
• often 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 3

• decorative final long 6
• embellished final barline 2
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 1