PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 39

• Bologna 1
• Casale Monferrato 1
• Ferrara 7
• Florence 12
• Fossombrone 2
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Modena 3
• Naples 3
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 2
• Siena 1
• Venice 6
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 29
• Printed work 10

• choirbook 31
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• tablebook 1

• paper 28
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 9

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 16
• upright 22

• always 9
• n/a 10
• never 2
• none visible 15
• normally 2
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 13
• brown 13
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• red 2
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 7
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 23
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 7

• 1 1
• 10 7
• 11 3
• 12 2
• 2 1
• 3 2
• 4 11
• 5 7
• 6 17
• 7 4
• 8 3
• 9 7

• 1-part single page 9
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 12
• 3-part opening 27
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 13
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 32
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 15
• 5-part opening 12
• 6-part opening 4
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 1

• double 5
• none 25
• single 18

• empty ruled staves on grid 30
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 4
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 23
• not in dedicated space 14
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 25
• notation extended into margin 22
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 24
• blue 1
• brown 15
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 39

• absent 32
• present 8

• fair 15
• high 11
• n/a 10
• very high 3

• coronae 12
• cue notes 2
• custodes 1
• end symbol 7
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 14
• signa congruentiae 22
• signes-de-renvoi 20
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• French 16
• German 1
• Italian 16
• Latin 30
• Spanish 3

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 12
• fully texted with one text 27
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 12
• provided with single incipit 21
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 18

• Italic 1
• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 3
• cursive (italic) 6
• display script 2
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 2
• roman 6
• rotonda 5
• textura 9

• fair 13
• high 12
• n/a 10
• poor 3
• very high 3

• black 22
• blue 2
• brown 17
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 5
• red-brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 21
• yes 20

• rarely 5

• rarely 10

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 3
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 6

• normally 3
• often 3
• rarely 3
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 7
• flourished 3
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 3
• normally 17
• occasionally 2
• often 5
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 19
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 2
• flourished 10
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 2

• normally 3
• rarely 4
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

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

• Voice-names 1
• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 5
• embellished final barline 3
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2
• signes-de-renvoi 1