PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 21

• Florence 18
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Pisa 1

• Manuscript 21

• choirbook 12
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• tablebook 1

• paper 12
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 5
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 15
• upright 5

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

• black 2
• brown 10
• dark brown 8
• gold 1
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 7
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 5
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 14

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part opening 3
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 13
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 13
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 5
• 5-part opening 3

• double 1
• none 17
• single 6

• empty ruled staves on grid 13
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 7
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 9
• not in dedicated space 12
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• made for complete additional staves 3
• notation and staves extended into margin 16
• notation extended into margin 11
• partial additional staves 8
• staveline added 9
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 7
• blue 1
• brown 13
• dark brown 3
• gold 2
• light brown 2
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 20

• absent 20
• present 1

• fair 14
• high 5
• very high 2

• coronae 1
• end symbol 6
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 16
• signa congruentiae 7
• signes-de-renvoi 8
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 5
• Flemish 1
• French 13
• Italian 21
• Latin 15
• Spanish 4

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 15
• fully texted with one text 11
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 3
• partially texted with one text 10
• provided with one or two incipits 2
• provided with single incipit 17
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 15

• cursive 4
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• cursive (italic) 9
• roman 1
• rotonda 1

• fair 13
• high 5
• poor 3
• very high 1

• black 4
• blue 1
• brown 15
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• grey 1
• light brown 1
• red 3

• no 8
• yes 15

• rarely 2

• rarely 2

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

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

• decorated 3
• historiated 1

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

• calligraphic 7
• calligraphic with decoration 3
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 3
• decorated 2
• flourished 2
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 5

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

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorative final long 4
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 2
• signa congruentiae 1