PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 4
• France 1
• Italy 7
• Spain 2
• Switzerland 1

• Brussels 3
• Cambrai 1
• Catalonia 2
• Florence 4
• France 1
• Girona 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 4
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Rome 1
• St Gall 1
• Vic 1

• Manuscript 19

• choirbook 16
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1

• paper 14
• parchment 4
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• oblong 3
• upright 16

• always 4
• never 3
• none visible 8
• normally 1
• often 2
• rarely 1

• black 7
• brown 9
• dark brown 2
• light brown 2
• red 1

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 1
• single rastrum 11
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 3

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

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 16
• 3-part single page 6
• 4-part opening 16
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 10
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 7
• 8-part opening 1

• double 6
• none 13
• single 12
• triple 4

• empty ruled staves on grid 15
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 3
• variable space, not on grid 2

• no separate text 15
• not in dedicated space 4
• provided, in dedicated space 2

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 13
• notation extended into margin 8
• other 1
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 5
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 12
• brown 6
• dark brown 2
• reddish brown 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 18

• absent 17
• present 3

• fair 10
• high 9
• very high 1

• coronae 5
• end symbol 4
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 8
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 19
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 3
• Flemish 1
• French 9
• Italian 6
• Latin 18
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 5
• fully texted with one text 16
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one text 7
• provided with one or two incipits 3
• provided with single incipit 12
• untexted 13

• cursive 5
• cursive (German) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 7
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 4
• display script 4
• roman 1
• textura 3

• fair 11
• high 7
• poor 1
• very high 4

• black 11
• brown 10
• dark brown 3
• red 4
• reddish brown 1

• no 11
• yes 9

• never 3
• rarely 3

• never 4
• rarely 2

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

• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 1

• decorated 4
• decorated with grotesque heads 3
• flourished 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 3
• normally 8
• occasionally 6
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 12
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• flourished 6
• historiated 1
• plain initials 3

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 5
• occasionally 2
• often 5
• rarely 5

• Guide letters only 1

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 3
• often 1
• rarely 4
• sometimes 3

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 2
• diagrams 1
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 5
• ornament 1