PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 17

• Ferrara 1
• Florence 17
• Italy (North) 1

• Manuscript 17

• choirbook 10
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• tablebook 1

• paper 12
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 3
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 10
• upright 6

• always 3
• none visible 14
• rarely 1

• black 2
• brown 9
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 7
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 8
• 2-part opening 3
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 3
• 3-part opening 10
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 3
• 4-part opening 11
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 5
• 5-part opening 3
• 6-part opening 1

• none 12
• single 6

• empty ruled staves on grid 11
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 9
• not in dedicated space 8
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• made for complete additional staves 3
• notation and staves extended into margin 15
• notation extended into margin 11
• partial additional staves 6
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 4
• brown 13
• dark brown 1
• gold 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 16

• absent 16
• present 1

• fair 8
• high 7
• very high 2

• coronae 2
• end symbol 3
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 13
• signa congruentiae 9
• signes-de-renvoi 7

• Dutch 4
• Flemish 1
• French 12
• Italian 13
• Latin 15
• Spanish 4

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 11
• fully texted with one text 10
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 2
• partially texted with one text 8
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 3
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 12

• cursive 3
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 9
• hybrida 1
• roman 2
• textura 2

• fair 10
• high 7
• poor 1
• very high 1

• black 3
• blue 1
• brown 12
• dark brown 1
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 3

• no 10
• yes 10

• rarely 2

• rarely 2

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

• normally 2
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 3
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 1
• normally 7
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

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

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

• Guide letters only 2

• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 1

• decorative final long 2
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 2
• signa congruentiae 1