PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 2
• France 1
• Italy 12
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Brussels 1
• Catalonia 1
• Flanders 1
• Florence 9
• France 5
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 2
• Milan 1
• Naples 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 25

• chansonnier 1
• choirbook 19
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 3

• paper 14
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 7
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 9
• upright 16

• always 3
• never 3
• none visible 15
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 6
• brown 10
• dark brown 7
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 3
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 16
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 7

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

• 1-part single page 11
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part single page 8
• 3-part opening 20
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part opening 19
• 4-part single page 9
• 5-part opening 10
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 2
• 8-part opening 1

• double 3
• none 14
• quadruple 1
• single 14
• triple 3

• empty ruled staves on grid 20
• none 4
• staves not ruled on grid 4
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 10
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 8
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 22
• notation extended into margin 14
• other 2
• partial additional staves 12
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 7
• brown 18
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 24

• absent 21
• present 4

• fair 13
• high 10
• very high 3

• coronae 2
• end symbol 6
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 25
• signa congruentiae 12
• signes-de-renvoi 15
• space-filler 4

• Dutch 8
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 16
• Latin 22
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 18
• fully texted with one text 19
• fully texted with two or more texts 3
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 13
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 20
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 18

• cursive 6
• cursive (bastarda) 9
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 5
• display script 4
• hybrida 5
• roman 2

• fair 11
• high 13
• poor 4
• very high 2

• black 8
• blue 1
• brown 17
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• grey 1
• light brown 1
• red 6
• yellow 1

• no 8
• yes 22

• never 2
• rarely 6

• always 2
• never 2
• rarely 4

• full borders 4
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1

• always 2
• never 1
• normally 3
• occasionally 2
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 7
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

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

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 2
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 6

• normally 4
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 7
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorative final long 3
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2