PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 17

• Florence 13
• France 1
• Italy 4
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 1

• Manuscript 21

• choirbook 10
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• tablebook 1

• paper 13
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 6

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 14
• upright 6

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

• black 1
• brown 14
• dark brown 7
• gold 1
• light brown 1

• double rastrum 9
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 6
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 11

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

• 1-part single page 11
• 2-part opening 4
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 5
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 11
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 11
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 5
• 5-part opening 4

• double 1
• none 14
• single 8

• empty ruled staves on grid 15
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 6

• no separate text 10
• not in dedicated space 11
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• made for complete additional staves 3
• notation and staves extended into margin 15
• notation extended into margin 11
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 9
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 4
• brown 14
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 19

• absent 20
• present 1

• fair 12
• high 8
• very high 1

• coronae 1
• end symbol 3
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 15
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 6

• Dutch 4
• French 15
• Italian 15
• Latin 13
• Spanish 3

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 21
• fully texted with one text 8
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 11
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with one or two incipits 4
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 12

• antiqua 1
• cursive 2
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 8
• hybrida 1
• roman 1
• textura 1

• fair 11
• high 8
• poor 2
• very high 2

• black 4
• brown 16
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1

• no 5
• yes 19

• rarely 2

• rarely 4

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

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

• decorated 5
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 3
• normally 9
• often 2
• rarely 2

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

• normally 5
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 1

• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 1

• decorative final long 6
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1