PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Germany 1
• Italy 21

• Ferrara 1
• Florence 11
• Fossombrone 1
• Halberstadt 1
• Italy 4
• Leipzig 1
• Mantua 1
• Milan 3
• Modena 2
• Naples 2
• Pisa 1
• Torgau 1

• Manuscript 24
• Printed work 2

• choirbook 15
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• tablebook 1

• paper 26

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 14
• upright 11

• always 2
• n/a 2
• never 2
• none visible 18
• normally 1
• occasionally 1

• black 5
• brown 18
• dark brown 6

• double rastrum 10
• freehand 2
• single rastrum 12
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 8

• 10 6
• 11 5
• 12 5
• 13 2
• 2 1
• 3 6
• 4 8
• 5 2
• 6 7
• 8 1
• 9 2

• 1-part single page 12
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 13
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 7
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 14
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 8
• 6-part opening 4
• 7-part opening 1
• n/a 3

• double 2
• none 20
• single 10
• triple 1
• varies 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 16
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 7
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 14
• not in dedicated space 11
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• made for complete additional staves 7
• notation and staves extended into margin 17
• notation extended into margin 12
• other 1
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 9
• blue 1
• brown 16
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 25

• absent 23
• present 3

• fair 16
• high 8
• n/a 2
• poor 1

• coronae 4
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 3
• repeat signs 11
• signa congruentiae 10
• signes-de-renvoi 10
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 2
• French 14
• German 1
• Italian 14
• Latin 17
• Spanish 2

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 14
• fully texted with one text 15
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 3
• partially texted with one text 8
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 3
• provided with single incipit 14
• untexted 9
• varies 1

• cursive 4
• cursive (German) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 1
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 10
• hybrida 1
• roman 2
• rotonda 1
• textura 2

• fair 12
• high 6
• n/a 2
• poor 3

• black 6
• blue 1
• brown 20
• red 2

• no 8
• yes 17

• never 1

• never 1

• always 5
• never 1
• normally 11
• occasionally 1
• often 4
• rarely 4
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 8
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 5
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 6

• always 1
• normally 4
• rarely 2
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 1

• normally 1
• occasionally 2
• often 1
• rarely 6
• sometimes 3

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 6
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 3