PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 35
• Italy (North) 1
• Spain 1

• Belgium 1
• Casale Monferrato 2
• Catalonia 1
• Ferrara 5
• Flanders 1
• Florence 10
• France 2
• Girona 1
• Italy 2
• Italy (North) 3
• Mantua 3
• Modena 3
• Naples 4
• Padua 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 6
• Siena 1
• Spain 1
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 2

• Manuscript 41
• Printed work 1

• chansonnier 1
• choirbook 35
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 2
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1

• paper 27
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 13
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• oblong 8
• upright 34

• always 11
• n/a 1
• never 4
• none visible 18
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• sometimes 4

• black 7
• brown 21
• dark brown 5
• light brown 4
• red 2
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 3

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 8
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 29
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 6

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

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 18
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 37
• 3-part single page 18
• 4-part opening 39
• 4-part single page 14
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 15
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 9
• 7-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• double 7
• none 27
• quadruple 1
• single 16
• triple 2

• empty ruled staves on grid 38
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 23
• not in dedicated space 20
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 15
• notation and staves extended into margin 32
• notation extended into margin 25
• partial additional staves 18
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 23
• blue 1
• brown 21
• gold 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 41

• absent 33
• present 11

• fair 24
• high 12
• n/a 1
• poor 1
• very high 4

• coronae 4
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 8
• pointers 6
• repeat signs 15
• signa congruentiae 14
• signes-de-renvoi 42
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 8
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 15
• Latin 36
• Spanish 9

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 11
• fully texted with one text 32
• fully texted with two or more texts 3
• partially texted with one or two texts 7
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 27
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 25

• cursive 10
• cursive (Italianate) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 6
• display script 3
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• rotonda 2
• textura 9
• various 1

• fair 26
• high 10
• n/a 1
• poor 3
• very high 3

• black 19
• blue 2
• brown 26
• dark brown 2
• red 7
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 23
• yes 23

• never 1
• rarely 5

• never 1
• rarely 7

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

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

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 6
• flourished 2
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 6
• normally 16
• occasionally 4
• often 6
• rarely 6
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 26
• calligraphic with decoration 9
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated 1
• flourished 11
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 6

• always 3
• normally 7
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 6
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

• normally 4
• occasionally 3
• often 6
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• Voice-names 1
• decorated letters 2
• decorative final long 9
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 2
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 3
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1