PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 2
• Italy 11
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Florence 8
• France 4
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Naples 1
• Paris 2
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 2
• Switzerland 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 22

• choirbook 15
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1

• paper 17
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 4

• oblong 11
• upright 11

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

• black 1
• brown 11
• dark brown 7
• light brown 2
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 2
• single rastrum 12
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 7

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

• 1-part single page 11
• 2-part opening 5
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part opening 16
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part opening 14
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• none 13
• single 12

• empty ruled staves on grid 16
• none 4
• staves not ruled on grid 2
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 7
• not in dedicated space 14
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 6
• notation and staves extended into margin 19
• notation extended into margin 11
• other 1
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 4
• brown 22

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 1
• void mensural 21

• absent 19
• present 3

• fair 14
• high 6
• poor 1
• very high 1

• coronae 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 18
• signa congruentiae 7
• signes-de-renvoi 12
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 1
• French 20
• German 1
• Italian 16
• Latin 19
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 16
• fully texted with one text 15
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 11
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 16
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 15

• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 5
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 6
• display script 2
• hybrida 5
• roman 1

• fair 12
• high 9
• poor 4

• black 5
• blue 1
• brown 19
• dark brown 2
• red 4
• yellow 1

• no 8
• yes 17

• never 1
• rarely 3

• always 1
• never 1
• rarely 2

• full borders 2
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1

• always 1
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• rarely 2

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 4
• flourished 1
• historiated 1

• always 1
• normally 8
• occasionally 2
• often 4
• rarely 2
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 6

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

• Guide letters only 2

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 2

• decorative final long 3
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 1