PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 37

• Bologna 2
• Casale Monferrato 1
• Ferrara 2
• Florence 16
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 2
• Milan 3
• Modena 1
• Naples 3
• Rome 5
• Siena 1
• Venice 5
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 31
• Printed work 6

• choirbook 29
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 29
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 5
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 19
• upright 18

• always 5
• n/a 6
• never 4
• none visible 20
• normally 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 7
• brown 17
• dark brown 8
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 9
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 17
• triple rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part opening 19
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 29
• 4-part single page 13
• 5-part opening 10
• 6-part opening 3
• n/a 2

• double 4
• none 24
• single 15

• empty ruled staves on grid 26
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 8
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 21
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 7
• notation and staves extended into margin 24
• notation extended into margin 16
• partial additional staves 9
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 22
• blue 1
• brown 16
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• red 1

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 35

• absent 34
• present 5

• fair 18
• high 12
• n/a 6
• very high 2

• coronae 8
• cue notes 1
• custodes 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 17
• signes-de-renvoi 18
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 2
• French 20
• German 1
• Italian 23
• Latin 29
• Spanish 7

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 17
• fully texted with one text 22
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 13
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 20

• Italic 1
• antiqua 1
• cursive 7
• cursive (Italianate) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 9
• display script 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 4
• rotonda 3
• textura 5
• various 1

• fair 18
• high 11
• n/a 6
• poor 3
• very high 2

• black 17
• blue 2
• brown 19
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 6
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 20
• yes 22

• rarely 2

• rarely 3

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

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

• decorated 4
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 3
• normally 13
• occasionally 3
• often 4
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 13
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 2
• flourished 5
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 6

• always 2
• normally 5
• occasionally 1
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 3

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 10
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 1
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1