PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 1
• Germany 2
• Italy 33
• Italy (North) 1
• Netherlands 2

• Augsburg 1
• Belgium 1
• Casale Monferrato 4
• Florence 14
• France 3
• Halberstadt 1
• Italy 2
• Italy (North) 3
• Leipzig 1
• Maastricht 1
• Mantua 2
• Milan 1
• Modena 6
• Naples 2
• Paris 1
• Rome 2
• Siena 2
• Spain 1
• Staffarda 1
• Torgau 1
• Turin 1
• Utrecht 1

• Manuscript 44

• choirbook 32
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (fragment) 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• poetry collection with some notated music 1
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 36
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 7

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 12
• upright 31

• always 6
• never 6
• none visible 28
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• sometimes 3

• black 4
• brown 31
• dark brown 10
• light brown 2
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 7
• freehand 3
• single rastrum 31
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 15
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 16
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 11
• 3-part consecutive 3
• 3-part opening 28
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 34
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 13
• 5-part opening 15
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 6
• n/a 1

• double 4
• none 29
• single 18
• varies 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 35
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 3
• none 8
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 22
• not in dedicated space 19
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 16
• notation and staves extended into margin 35
• notation extended into margin 20
• other 2
• partial additional staves 19
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 8
• brown 44
• red 1

• German hufnagel 1
• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 43

• absent 37
• present 9

• fair 29
• high 13
• poor 5

• coronae 2
• cue notes 2
• end symbol 7
• none 1
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 18
• signa congruentiae 11
• signes-de-renvoi 21
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• French 24
• German 4
• Italian 19
• Latin 37
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 18
• fully texted with one text 33
• partially texted with one or two texts 7
• partially texted with one text 17
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 10
• provided with single incipit 23
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 24
• varies 1

• cursive 9
• cursive (German) 2
• cursive (bastarda) 7
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 10
• display script 2
• hybrida 2
• roman 1
• rotonda 1
• textura 10
• various 1

• fair 26
• high 14
• poor 5

• black 9
• blue 3
• brown 42
• dark brown 1
• red 6
• yellow 1

• no 24
• yes 24

• never 2
• rarely 3

• always 1
• rarely 2

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

• always 2
• never 2
• normally 2
• rarely 3

• decorated 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 4
• never 1
• normally 16
• occasionally 5
• often 6
• rarely 7
• sometimes 5

• calligraphic 21
• calligraphic with decoration 10
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 11
• flourished 10
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 4
• plain initials 8

• always 3
• normally 9
• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 4
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

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

• Voice-names 1
• decorated letters 5
• decorative final long 7
• embellished final barline 4
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 3