PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Austria 1
• Belgium 11
• France 2
• Germany 5
• Italy 7
• Italy (North) 1
• Spain 1

• Augsburg 1
• Belgium 1
• Brussels 9
• Cambrai 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 3
• France 2
• Germany (South) 3
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Innsbruck 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 10
• Munich 1
• Naples 1
• Netherlands 1
• Padua 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Wittenberg 1
• Zaragoza 1

• Manuscript 33

• choirbook 31
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1

• paper 16
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 13
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 3
• upright 30

• always 16
• never 3
• none visible 12
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• sometimes 2

• black 21
• brown 5
• dark brown 2
• light brown 2
• red 2
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 2
• freehand 1
• single rastrum 29
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 2

• 1 1
• 10 21
• 11 11
• 12 4
• 13 2
• 2 4
• 3 3
• 4 5
• 5 8
• 6 13
• 7 12
• 8 16
• 9 19

• 1-part single page 5
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part single page 4
• 3-part opening 23
• 3-part single page 2
• 4-part opening 30
• 4-part single page 5
• 5-part opening 17
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 8

• double 17
• none 10
• quadruple 3
• single 27
• triple 12

• empty ruled staves on grid 27
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 2
• staves not ruled 2
• staves not ruled on grid 14
• variable space, not on grid 2

• no separate text 26
• not in dedicated space 4
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 11
• notation and staves extended into margin 33
• notation extended into margin 13
• partial additional staves 14
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 26
• brown 10
• dark brown 1
• light brown 1
• red 2

• German hufnagel 1
• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 33

• absent 29
• present 6

• fair 13
• high 10
• poor 2
• very high 11

• coronae 5
• custodes 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 8
• signa congruentiae 19
• signes-de-renvoi 26
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 4
• Flemish 2
• French 16
• German 3
• Italian 4
• Latin 29
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 5
• fully texted with one text 31
• fully texted with two or more texts 10
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 3
• partially texted with one text 5
• provided with one or two incipits 4
• provided with single incipit 12
• untexted 12

• cursive 2
• cursive (German) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 18
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 14
• humanistic 2
• hybrida 1
• roman 1
• textura 6

• fair 13
• high 14
• very high 11

• black 25
• blue 1
• brown 10
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1
• red 21
• yellow 1

• no 16
• yes 19

• never 2
• rarely 13

• never 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 16

• full and partial borders 1
• full borders 3
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 2
• partial borders: one-sided 8
• partial borders: two-sided 4

• always 1
• never 3
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 13

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 7
• decorated with grotesque heads 3
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 2
• normally 20
• occasionally 6
• often 2
• rarely 6
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 13
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 2
• historiated 1
• plain initials 3

• always 1
• never 9
• normally 2
• occasionally 4
• often 2
• rarely 9
• sometimes 1

• Guide letters only 1

• always 2
• never 12
• normally 2
• occasionally 4
• often 3
• rarely 2

• banner 2
• decorative final long 4
• littera notabilior 4
• signes-de-renvoi 1