PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 4
• Italy 11
• Spain 1

• Belgium 1
• Bourges 1
• Cognac 1
• Florence 7
• France 9
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Naples 1
• Paris 2
• Rome 1
• Seville 1
• Siena 1
• Spain 1

• Manuscript 26

• choirbook 22
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 2

• paper 16
• parchment 10

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• upright 18

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• never 4
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• sometimes 3

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• reddish brown 1

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

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• 2-part opening 8
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 22
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 7
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 19
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 4
• 5-part single page 1

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• none 13
• quintuple 1
• single 19

• empty ruled staves on grid 22
• none 2
• staves not ruled on grid 1
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 5
• not in dedicated space 17
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 10
• notation and staves extended into margin 21
• notation extended into margin 15
• partial additional staves 12
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 4
• brown 26
• light brown 1

• full mensural 1
• void mensural 25

• absent 24
• present 2

• fair 14
• high 10
• poor 2
• very high 3

• end symbol 4
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 18
• signa congruentiae 11
• signes-de-renvoi 15
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• French 23
• German 1
• Italian 13
• Latin 20
• Spanish 5
• n/a 1

• fully texted with one or two texts 16
• fully texted with one text 20
• fully texted with two texts 3
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• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with multiple incipits 1
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• provided with two incipits 4
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• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 1
• hybrida 4

• fair 14
• high 11
• poor 2
• very high 1

• black 4
• blue 1
• brown 23
• dark brown 1
• light brown 1
• red 3
• yellow 1

• no 10
• yes 18

• rarely 5

• always 1
• rarely 5

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

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• normally 5
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• rarely 3
• sometimes 2

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• often 4
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• sometimes 3

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• plain initials 5
• zoomorphic initial 1

• normally 5
• occasionally 1
• often 4
• rarely 6
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

• normally 1
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 2

• decorative final long 3
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 2