PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 1
• France 3
• Great Britain 2
• Italy 17
• Spain 2

• Bourges 1
• Catalonia 1
• Cognac 1
• England 1
• Ferrara 4
• Florence 10
• France 2
• Italy 2
• London 1
• Mechelen 1
• Modena 1
• Naples 1
• Netherlands 1
• Paris 1
• Seville 2
• Verona 2
• Windsor 1

• Manuscript 32

• choirbook 28
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbooks (incomplete set) 2
• tablebook 1

• paper 17
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 12
• parchment and paper (mixed) 2

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 4
• upright 27

• always 6
• never 3
• none visible 13
• normally 5
• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 9
• brown 18
• dark brown 3
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 3
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 23
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 6

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 8
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 26
• 3-part score 2
• 3-part single page 12
• 4-part opening 26
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 11
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 5
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 1

• double 4
• none 19
• quintuple 1
• single 18
• triple 3

• empty ruled staves on grid 29
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 5
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 15
• not in dedicated space 18
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 11
• notation and staves extended into margin 29
• notation extended into margin 32
• other 2
• partial additional staves 12
• staveline added 11
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 15
• brown 16
• dark brown 4
• red 4

• chant (square) 4
• full mensural 5
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 30

• absent 21
• present 11

• fair 11
• high 16
• very high 6

• coronae 5
• end symbol 11
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 14
• signa congruentiae 18
• signes-de-renvoi 20
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 3
• English 2
• French 17
• Italian 9
• Latin 25
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 13
• fully texted with one text 24
• fully texted with two or more texts 5
• fully texted with two texts 3
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 11
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 2
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 18
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 16

• cursive 4
• cursive (Anglicana) 2
• cursive (bastarda) 8
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 5
• display script 2
• humanistic 2
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• rotonda 2
• textura 6

• fair 13
• high 15
• poor 2
• very high 4

• black 15
• brown 18
• dark brown 3
• red 9

• no 14
• yes 19

• never 2
• rarely 7

• always 1
• never 2
• rarely 9

• full borders 3
• partial borders: one-sided 2
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 5

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

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 7
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 2
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 2
• normally 13
• occasionally 4
• often 3
• rarely 9
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 14
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 3
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 5

• never 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 8
• sometimes 1

• Guide letters only 1

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 10
• sometimes 2

• banner 1
• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 8
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 3
• signes-de-renvoi 2