PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 1
• Germany 5
• Great Britain 5
• Italy 18
• Netherlands 1
• Spain 2
• Switzerland 4

• Basel 3
• Bologna 2
• Casale Monferrato 1
• Catalonia 1
• Emmerich 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 9
• France 2
• Freiburg 1
• Germany 1
• Germany (South) 3
• Girona 1
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 3
• Köln 1
• London 5
• Mantua 2
• Naples 2
• Paris 1
• Rome 3
• Seville 1
• St Gall 1
• Utrecht 1
• Verona 1
• Wittenberg 1

• Manuscript 39

• choirbook 21
• choirbook (fragment(s)) 1
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 10
• poetry collection with some notated music 2
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1

• paper 29
• paper (with parchment) 4
• parchment 6

• oblong 18
• upright 21

• always 9
• never 15
• none visible 17
• sometimes 1

• black 13
• brown 16
• dark brown 7
• light brown 2
• red 2
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 3
• freehand 5
• printed staves 4
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 19
• straightedge 4
• triple rastrum 9

• 1 2
• 10 8
• 11 3
• 12 2
• 13 1
• 2 5
• 3 15
• 4 5
• 5 5
• 6 11
• 7 5
• 8 6
• 9 5

• 1-part single page 14
• 2-part consecutive 3
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 17
• 3-part single page 6
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 23
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 8
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 2
• 7-part opening 1
• n/a 2

• double 7
• none 23
• single 16
• triple 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 24
• left below voice parts as part of grid 2
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 10
• staves not ruled on grid 5
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 23
• not in dedicated space 12
• provided, in dedicated space 10

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 8
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 23
• notation extended into margin 12
• other 1
• partial additional staves 12
• staveline added 5
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 24
• blue 1
• brown 18
• dark brown 3
• light brown 2
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• German hufnagel 2
• chant (square) 5
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 37

• absent 34
• present 10

• fair 30
• high 8
• poor 6
• very high 1

• coronae 4
• end symbol 7
• pointers 6
• repeat signs 15
• signa congruentiae 14
• signes-de-renvoi 18

• Dutch 6
• English 1
• Flemish 2
• French 17
• German 6
• Italian 15
• Latin 34
• Spanish 6
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 12
• fully texted with one text 28
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 11
• provided with one or two incipits 4
• provided with single incipit 22
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 20

• cursive 14
• cursive (German) 3
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 7
• display script 2
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 2
• rotonda 1
• textura 6
• various 1

• fair 39
• high 5
• poor 4

• black 23
• blue 1
• brown 22
• dark brown 4
• light brown 2
• red 8
• reddish brown 2
• yellow 1

• no 23
• yes 20

• never 4
• rarely 4

• always 1
• never 2
• rarely 2

• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 1

• always 3
• never 3
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• rarely 3

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 3
• flourished 1
• plain initials 2

• always 2
• never 1
• normally 13
• occasionally 2
• often 5
• rarely 3
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 15
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 4
• flourished 4
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 11

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

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 7
• end-symbol 5
• littera notabilior 3
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1