PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 18

• Florence 15
• France 1
• Italy 4
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Pisa 1

• Manuscript 22

• choirbook 11
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• tablebook 1

• paper 17
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 3

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 15
• upright 6

• always 1
• never 2
• none visible 17
• normally 1
• sometimes 1

• brown 12
• dark brown 10
• light brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 7
• freehand 1
• single rastrum 8
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 12
• 2-part opening 5
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 5
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 13
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 12
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 5
• 5-part opening 3
• 6-part opening 1

• double 2
• none 18
• single 6

• empty ruled staves on grid 15
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 6

• no separate text 10
• not in dedicated space 10
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• made for complete additional staves 5
• notation and staves extended into margin 15
• notation extended into margin 14
• partial additional staves 8
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 3
• blue 1
• brown 17
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 21

• absent 21
• present 1

• fair 13
• high 9

• coronae 2
• end symbol 6
• repeat signs 14
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 9
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 5
• French 15
• Italian 15
• Latin 15
• Spanish 3

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 16
• fully texted with one text 11
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 9
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 15
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 13

• cursive 2
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• cursive (italic) 10
• hybrida 1
• roman 1
• rotonda 1
• textura 1

• fair 13
• high 8
• poor 2

• black 1
• brown 22
• red 2

• no 6
• yes 16

• rarely 1

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

• normally 1
• rarely 1

• decorated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 4
• normally 11
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 1

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

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

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorative final long 5
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 2