PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 28

• Ferrara 1
• Flanders 1
• Florence 24
• France 1
• Italy 4
• Italy (North) 3
• Mantua 1
• Milan 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 1

• Manuscript 34

• chansonnier 1
• choirbook 21
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 3
• tablebook 1

• paper 20
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 10
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 19
• upright 14

• always 4
• never 3
• none visible 23
• normally 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 4
• brown 17
• dark brown 10
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 2
• reddish brown 2

• double rastrum 11
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 13
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 16

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

• 1-part single page 14
• 2-part opening 8
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 9
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 21
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 6
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 23
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 7
• 6-part opening 1

• double 3
• none 25
• quadruple 1
• single 10
• triple 1

• empty ruled staves on grid 25
• left between voice parts as part of grid 3
• none 7
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 19
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• made for complete additional staves 7
• notation and staves extended into margin 24
• notation extended into margin 20
• partial additional staves 10
• staveline added 11
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 12
• blue 1
• brown 19
• dark brown 5
• gold 2
• light brown 2
• red 2

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 32

• absent 32
• present 2

• fair 17
• high 16
• very high 2

• coronae 2
• end symbol 7
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 20
• signa congruentiae 14
• signes-de-renvoi 13
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• Italian 21
• Latin 25
• Spanish 5

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 21
• fully texted with one text 18
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 14
• partially texted with two texts 2
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 24
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 22

• antiqua 1
• cursive 4
• cursive (bastarda) 5
• cursive (humanistic) 11
• cursive (italic) 12
• display script 1
• hybrida 1
• roman 2
• rotonda 1
• textura 4

• fair 16
• high 16
• poor 3
• very high 2

• black 10
• blue 2
• brown 22
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• grey 1
• light brown 1
• red 7

• no 15
• yes 23

• rarely 3

• rarely 5

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

• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• decorated 7
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 6
• normally 14
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 13
• calligraphic with decoration 9
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated 2
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 5
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 7

• always 1
• normally 6
• occasionally 1
• rarely 4
• sometimes 5

• Guide letters only 2

• always 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 7
• sometimes 2

• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 9
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 3
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1