PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 1
• Italy 18

• Belgium 1
• Bruges 1
• Florence 10
• France 1
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 2
• Naples 3
• Padua 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 1
• Siena 1
• Spain 1

• Manuscript 21
• Printed work 2

• choirbook 17
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 13
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 6
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 11
• upright 11

• always 4
• n/a 3
• never 2
• none visible 12
• normally 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 4
• brown 12
• dark brown 4
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 5
• freehand 3
• printed staves 1
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 10
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 9

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

• 1-part single page 6
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part single page 11
• 3-part opening 19
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 7
• 4-part opening 20
• 4-part single page 12
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1

• double 2
• none 15
• single 12

• empty ruled staves on grid 20
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 3
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 9
• not in dedicated space 13
• provided, in dedicated space 7

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 6
• notation and staves extended into margin 15
• notation extended into margin 12
• other 1
• partial additional staves 10
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 12
• blue 1
• brown 10
• dark brown 2
• gold 3
• light brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 22

• absent 21
• present 3

• fair 16
• high 2
• n/a 2
• very high 3

• coronae 4
• end symbol 7
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 13
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 16
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 15
• German 1
• Italian 23
• Latin 16
• Spanish 9

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 13
• fully texted with one text 12
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 6
• partially texted with one text 13
• provided with one or two incipits 4
• provided with single incipit 20
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 18

• Italic 1
• cursive 6
• cursive (bastarda) 1
• cursive (humanistic) 5
• cursive (italic) 6
• hybrida 1
• roman 1
• rotonda 2
• textura 1

• fair 15
• high 2
• n/a 2
• poor 5
• very high 1

• black 10
• blue 1
• brown 12
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 4
• red-brown 1

• no 10
• yes 15

• often 1
• rarely 1

• rarely 2

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1

• often 1
• sometimes 1

• decorated 2

• always 4
• normally 8
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 12
• calligraphic with decoration 4
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 2
• flourished 5
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 1

• always 1
• normally 5
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 2
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 2

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

• banner 1
• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 5
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 1
• signa congruentiae 1