PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 1
• Italy 8
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Florence 6
• France 3
• Mantua 1
• Naples 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 13

• choirbook 8
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 2
• tablebook 1

• paper 10
• parchment 3

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 4
• upright 8

• never 2
• none visible 9
• normally 1
• sometimes 1

• brown 10
• dark brown 2
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 2
• freehand 1
• single rastrum 9
• triple rastrum 4

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

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

• none 7
• single 8

• empty ruled staves on grid 11
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 2

• no separate text 4
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 2

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 4
• notation and staves extended into margin 12
• notation extended into margin 9
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 3
• staves extended into margin 1

• black 2
• brown 13

• full mensural 1
• void mensural 12

• absent 11
• present 2

• fair 9
• high 3
• very high 1

• coronae 1
• end symbol 3
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 12
• signa congruentiae 7
• signes-de-renvoi 8
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 3
• Flemish 1
• French 12
• German 1
• Italian 10
• Latin 12
• Spanish 3

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 12
• fully texted with one text 9
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 9
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 11
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 10

• cursive 2
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 1
• cursive (italic) 5
• display script 1
• hybrida 4
• roman 1

• fair 7
• high 5
• poor 3

• black 3
• blue 1
• brown 11
• dark brown 1
• red 2
• yellow 1

• no 5
• yes 11

• never 1
• rarely 3

• always 1
• never 1
• rarely 1

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

• always 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 1

• decorated 3
• historiated 1

• normally 5
• often 2
• rarely 2
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 4
• calligraphic with decoration 4
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 2
• historiated 1
• plain initials 3

• normally 3
• often 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• Guide letters only 2

• never 1
• normally 1
• often 1

• decorative final long 1
• end-symbol 1