PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 14
• Spain 1

• Catalonia 1
• Florence 9
• France 3
• Italy 2
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Pisa 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 22

• choirbook 13
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1

• paper 13
• parchment 8
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• oblong 9
• upright 13

• never 1
• none visible 18
• normally 2
• sometimes 1

• brown 14
• dark brown 6
• light brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 11
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 8

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 15
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 14
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 8
• 5-part opening 5
• 8-part opening 1

• none 13
• single 12

• empty ruled staves on grid 16
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 8
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 8
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 15
• notation extended into margin 9
• other 2
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 6

• black 3
• brown 13
• dark brown 4
• light brown 4
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 21

• absent 20
• present 3

• fair 16
• high 6
• poor 1
• very high 1

• coronae 2
• end symbol 4
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 16
• signa congruentiae 11
• signes-de-renvoi 11
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 2
• Flemish 1
• French 15
• Italian 15
• Latin 15
• Spanish 6
• n/a 1

• fully texted with one or two texts 22
• fully texted with one text 10
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 13
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 2
• provided with single incipit 16
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 13

• antiqua 1
• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 6
• hybrida 4
• textura 2

• fair 15
• high 6
• poor 4
• very high 1

• black 5
• blue 1
• brown 14
• dark brown 3
• light brown 3
• red 3
• red-brown 1

• no 5
• yes 21

• never 2
• rarely 2

• always 1
• never 2
• rarely 5

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

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

• decorated 6
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 2
• normally 10
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 7
• calligraphic with decoration 4
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 3
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 7

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

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 2

• decorative final long 4
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 3
• ornament 1