PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Great Britain 1
• Italy 12
• Switzerland 1

• Basel 1
• Belgium 1
• England 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 3
• France 2
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 1
• Modena 1
• Naples 1
• Rome 1
• Savoy, France 1
• Spain 1
• Venice 5

• Manuscript 15
• Printed work 9

• choirbook 14
• choirbook (single quire(s)) 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 18
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 4
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 10
• upright 13

• always 1
• n/a 9
• never 3
• none visible 8
• normally 1
• sometimes 3

• black 9
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• light brown 1

• double rastrum 2
• freehand 2
• single rastrum 12
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 1

• 10 5
• 11 2
• 12 2
• 2 1
• 3 2
• 4 5
• 5 5
• 6 15
• 7 6
• 8 6
• 9 5

• 1-part single page 9
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 14
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 5
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 16
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 6
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 3

• double 6
• none 9
• single 16

• empty ruled staves on grid 16
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 3
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 11
• not in dedicated space 7
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• made for complete additional staves 6
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 13
• notation extended into margin 10
• other 1
• partial additional staves 8
• staveline added 3
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 15
• brown 11
• dark brown 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 1
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 24

• absent 22
• present 3

• fair 8
• high 5
• n/a 9
• poor 1
• very high 1

• coronae 10
• custodes 1
• end symbol 3
• none 1
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 11
• signa congruentiae 15
• signes-de-renvoi 10

• Dutch 5
• English 1
• French 12
• German 1
• Italian 9
• Latin 21
• Spanish 2

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 11
• fully texted with one text 19
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 6
• partially texted with one text 16
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 24
• provided with single incipit 11
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 13

• cursive 2
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (German) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 2
• display script 2
• hybrida 3
• roman 3
• rotonda 7
• textura 1

• fair 7
• high 6
• n/a 9
• poor 3
• very high 1

• black 14
• blue 1
• brown 10
• dark brown 3
• red 4
• yellow 1

• no 13
• yes 12

• never 3
• rarely 1

• never 3
• often 1
• rarely 3

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

• normally 2
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

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

• normally 7
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• flourished 2
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1

• normally 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 2

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 1

• Voice-names 1
• banner 1
• decorative final long 3
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 1