PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 27
• Italy (North) 1

• Bologna 2
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 2
• Florence 11
• Fossombrone 2
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Rome 2
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 4

• Manuscript 21
• Printed work 6

• choirbook 18
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 6

• paper 21
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 4
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 11
• upright 16

• n/a 6
• never 5
• none visible 15
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 7
• brown 12
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 5
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 11
• triple rastrum 7

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

• 1-part single page 13
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 8
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part opening 16
• 3-part single page 7
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 19
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 10
• 6-part opening 3

• double 6
• none 16
• single 12

• empty ruled staves on grid 17
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 4
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 20
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 7
• notation and staves extended into margin 18
• notation extended into margin 10
• partial additional staves 9
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 16
• brown 12
• dark brown 1
• gold 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 26

• absent 26
• present 3

• fair 15
• high 6
• n/a 6
• very high 1

• coronae 8
• end symbol 3
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 9
• signa congruentiae 13
• signes-de-renvoi 12

• Dutch 3
• French 14
• German 1
• Italian 11
• Latin 23
• Spanish 3

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 8
• fully texted with one text 22
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 2
• partially texted with one text 10
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 15
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 14

• antiqua 1
• cursive 2
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• cursive (italic) 7
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 1
• roman 4
• rotonda 5
• textura 2
• various 1

• fair 16
• high 6
• n/a 6
• poor 1
• very high 1

• black 12
• blue 1
• brown 13
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 4
• yellow 1

• no 19
• yes 11

• rarely 3

• rarely 3

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

• normally 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• decorated 3
• historiated 1

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

• calligraphic 10
• calligraphic with decoration 4
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 1
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 8

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

• Guide letters only 1

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

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 5
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1