PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 8

• Casale Monferrato 1
• Florence 5
• France 1
• Siena 2

• Manuscript 9

• choirbook 7
• partbook (single) 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 7
• parchment 2

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 3
• upright 5

• always 3
• none visible 4
• sometimes 2

• brown 7
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 2
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 4
• triple rastrum 5

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

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

• double 2
• none 4
• single 6

• empty ruled staves on grid 8
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1

• no separate text 4
• not in dedicated space 4
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 4
• notation and staves extended into margin 9
• notation extended into margin 8
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 3
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 2
• brown 8
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 8

• absent 8
• present 2

• fair 9

• coronae 1
• end symbol 2
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 6
• signa congruentiae 5
• signes-de-renvoi 7
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 2
• French 4
• Italian 5
• Latin 5
• Spanish 3

• fully texted with one or two texts 5
• fully texted with one text 5
• partially texted with one or two texts 3
• partially texted with one text 5
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 2
• provided with single incipit 7
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 7

• cursive 2
• cursive (bastarda) 1
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 3
• textura 1
• various 1

• fair 8
• poor 1

• black 1
• brown 8
• red 1

• no 4
• yes 6

• normally 1
• occasionally 3
• rarely 3

• calligraphic 4
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 1

• always 1
• normally 9
• rarely 1

• Guide letters only 2

• often 1
• rarely 2

• decorative final long 2
• littera notabilior 1