PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 2
• France 2
• Italy 8
• Spain 2

• Bourges 1
• Florence 7
• France 2
• Italy 1
• Mechelen 2
• Naples 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Seville 2

• Manuscript 17

• choirbook 15
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1

• paper 8
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 6
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 3
• upright 14

• always 2
• never 3
• none visible 9
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 2

• black 5
• brown 9
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 2
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 12
• triple rastrum 4

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

• 1-part single page 6
• 2-part opening 3
• 2-part single page 4
• 3-part opening 15
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part opening 15
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 7
• 6-part opening 1

• double 2
• none 11
• quintuple 1
• single 10
• triple 2

• empty ruled staves on grid 16
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 9
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 7
• notation and staves extended into margin 16
• notation extended into margin 17
• other 1
• partial additional staves 6
• staveline added 5
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 5
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• gold 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 16

• absent 15
• present 2

• fair 5
• high 9
• very high 4

• coronae 2
• end symbol 5
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 13
• signa congruentiae 11
• signes-de-renvoi 12
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• French 13
• German 1
• Italian 9
• Latin 16
• Spanish 4

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 10
• fully texted with one text 15
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 3
• partially texted with one or two texts 3
• partially texted with one text 8
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 12

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

• fair 5
• high 12
• poor 1
• very high 2

• black 5
• blue 1
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 5
• yellow 1

• no 7
• yes 12

• rarely 5

• always 1
• rarely 5

• full borders 3
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 2

• always 1
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 5
• zoomorphic initial 1

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

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

• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 2

• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 1

• decorative final long 3
• littera notabilior 1