PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 20

• Bologna 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 10
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 2
• Milan 1
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Rome 3
• Siena 1
• Venice 1

• Manuscript 19
• Printed work 1

• choirbook 16
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 14
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 5

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 7
• upright 12

• always 2
• n/a 1
• never 3
• none visible 12
• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1

• black 5
• brown 9
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 8
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 9
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 7

• 1 1
• 10 4
• 13 1
• 2 1
• 3 2
• 4 5
• 5 1
• 6 8
• 7 3
• 8 1

• 1-part single page 2
• 2-part opening 5
• 2-part single page 4
• 3-part opening 13
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part opening 18
• 4-part single page 8
• 5-part opening 6
• 6-part opening 2

• double 3
• none 15
• single 7

• empty ruled staves on grid 15
• left between voice parts as part of grid 4
• none 3

• no separate text 13
• not in dedicated space 7
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• made for complete additional staves 4
• notation and staves extended into margin 14
• notation extended into margin 12
• partial additional staves 8
• staveline added 5
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 12
• blue 1
• brown 8
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• light brown 1

• full mensural 2
• void mensural 19

• absent 19
• present 1

• fair 11
• high 7
• n/a 1
• very high 2

• coronae 2
• end symbol 4
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 9
• signa congruentiae 8
• signes-de-renvoi 12
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 1
• French 10
• German 1
• Italian 11
• Latin 16
• Spanish 5

• fully texted with one or two texts 7
• fully texted with one text 13
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 8
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 3
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 11

• Italic 1
• antiqua 1
• cursive 5
• cursive (Italianate) 1
• cursive (humanistic) 1
• cursive (italic) 7
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• textura 2

• fair 9
• high 8
• n/a 1
• poor 3
• very high 1

• black 9
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 2
• yellow 1

• no 14
• yes 8

• rarely 2

• rarely 5

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

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

• decorated 4
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 3
• normally 6
• occasionally 2
• often 3
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 10
• calligraphic with decoration 4
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 2
• flourished 3
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 3

• always 2
• normally 4
• often 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 4
• embellished final barline 2
• littera notabilior 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1