PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 1
• Germany 3
• Italy 6
• Netherlands 2
• Spain 1

• Belgium 1
• Florence 3
• France 5
• Germany (South) 1
• Halberstadt 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Leipzig 2
• Maastricht 1
• Mantua 1
• Naples 2
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Switzerland 1
• Toledo 1
• Torgau 1
• Utrecht 1

• Manuscript 21

• choirbook 15
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (fragment) 1
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• poetry collection with some notated music 1
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• single leaf 1

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

• oblong 3
• upright 18

• always 2
• never 7
• none visible 12
• normally 1
• sometimes 1

• black 6
• brown 15
• dark brown 3
• light brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• freehand 1
• single rastrum 19
• straightedge 5
• triple rastrum 1

• 10 7
• 11 5
• 12 2
• 13 2
• 14 2
• 2 2
• 3 1
• 4 1
• 5 4
• 6 7
• 7 6
• 8 6
• 9 6

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

• none 13
• single 13
• triple 1
• varies 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 16
• left below voice parts as part of grid 2
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 9
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 8
• notation and staves extended into margin 17
• notation extended into margin 10
• other 1
• partial additional staves 7
• staveline added 3
• staves extended into margin 1

• black 6
• brown 21
• light brown 1
• red 1

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

• absent 17
• present 7

• fair 14
• high 7
• poor 5
• very high 1

• coronae 1
• end symbol 5
• none 1
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 10
• signa congruentiae 8
• signes-de-renvoi 11
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 15
• German 5
• Italian 9
• Latin 20
• Spanish 3
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 9
• fully texted with one text 19
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 10
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 13
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 14
• varies 2

• cursive 7
• cursive (German) 2
• cursive (bastarda) 5
• cursive (humanistic) 3
• cursive (italic) 2
• display script 3
• hybrida 4
• roman 1
• textura 3

• fair 13
• high 11
• poor 3

• black 7
• blue 1
• brown 19
• dark brown 1
• light brown 1
• red 4
• yellow 1

• no 13
• yes 13

• always 1
• never 3
• rarely 4

• always 1
• never 1
• rarely 3

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

• always 3
• never 2
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• decorated 5
• flourished 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 2
• never 1
• normally 6
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 3
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 7
• calligraphic with decoration 9
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 1

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

• Guide letters only 1

• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• decorative final long 3
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 1