PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 2
• Italy 12
• Spain 3

• Belgium 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 8
• France 4
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy 1
• Mantua 1
• Naples 2
• Paris 2
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 2
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 22

• choirbook 17
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 13
• parchment 8
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 4
• upright 17

• always 1
• never 4
• none visible 13
• normally 1
• often 1
• sometimes 2

• black 2
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• light brown 2
• red 3
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 2
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 16
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 4

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

• 1-part single page 4
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 5
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 20
• 3-part single page 8
• 4-part opening 18
• 4-part single page 9
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 5
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 1
• 8-part opening 1

• none 11
• single 15

• empty ruled staves on grid 19
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 1
• staves not ruled on grid 1
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 6
• not in dedicated space 13
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 7
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 20
• notation extended into margin 16
• other 1
• partial additional staves 10
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 8
• brown 16
• dark brown 1
• light brown 2
• red 1

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

• absent 19
• present 3

• fair 12
• high 9
• poor 2
• very high 1

• coronae 2
• end symbol 6
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 12
• signes-de-renvoi 16
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 17
• German 1
• Italian 11
• Latin 17
• Spanish 7
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 14
• fully texted with one text 17
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 8
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 7
• provided with single incipit 18
• provided with two incipits 5
• untexted 22

• cursive 8
• cursive (bastarda) 6
• cursive (humanistic) 3
• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 1
• humanistic 2
• hybrida 4
• roman 1
• rotonda 1
• textura 1

• fair 11
• high 10
• poor 5
• very high 1

• black 6
• blue 2
• brown 16
• dark brown 2
• grey 1
• light brown 2
• red 5
• yellow 1

• no 13
• yes 13

• never 1
• rarely 3

• always 2
• never 1
• rarely 3

• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

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

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 6
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• normally 5
• occasionally 2
• often 5
• rarely 3
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 8
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 3

• normally 6
• often 2
• rarely 6
• sometimes 2

• Guide letters only 3

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 4
• rarely 2

• decorative final long 4
• diagrams 1
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1