PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 13

• Florence 9
• Italy 1
• Milan 1
• Modena 2
• Naples 1

• Manuscript 14

• choirbook 8
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 13
• parchment 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 8
• upright 5

• always 1
• none visible 12
• occasionally 1

• black 1
• brown 10
• dark brown 4

• double rastrum 4
• single rastrum 7
• triple rastrum 7

• 10 2
• 11 1
• 12 1
• 3 5
• 4 2
• 5 1
• 6 4
• 7 1

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part opening 3
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 2
• 3-part opening 8
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 3
• 4-part opening 9
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 4
• 5-part opening 5
• 6-part opening 3

• none 11
• single 3

• empty ruled staves on grid 9
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 4
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 5
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 2

• made for complete additional staves 2
• notation and staves extended into margin 11
• notation extended into margin 8
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 1

• black 1
• brown 14

• full mensural 1
• void mensural 13

• absent 12
• present 2

• fair 9
• high 5

• coronae 1
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 2
• repeat signs 9
• signa congruentiae 6
• signes-de-renvoi 6

• Dutch 2
• French 10
• Italian 9
• Latin 10
• Spanish 3

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 10
• fully texted with one text 6
• partially texted with one or two texts 2
• partially texted with one text 5
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 3
• provided with single incipit 8
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 6

• cursive 1
• cursive (bastarda) 1
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 8
• hybrida 1
• roman 1
• textura 1

• fair 8
• high 4
• poor 1

• black 1
• brown 14

• no 5
• yes 9

• rarely 1

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

• normally 1
• rarely 1

• decorated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

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

• calligraphic 4
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 5

• normally 2
• sometimes 1

• Guide letters only 1

• rarely 3
• sometimes 2

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 2
• embellished final barline 1
• littera notabilior 1