PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 2
• France 1
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 10
• Spain 2

• Antwerp 1
• Belgium 1
• Brussels 1
• Catalonia 1
• England 1
• Ferrara 2
• Florence 3
• France 3
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 1
• Naples 2
• Paris 1
• Rome 2
• Segovia 1
• Tarazona 1
• Toledo 1
• Venice 1

• Manuscript 21

• choirbook 18
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1

• paper 8
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 9
• parchment and paper (mixed) 2

• oblong 1
• upright 20

• always 2
• never 2
• none visible 10
• normally 4
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 8
• brown 10
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1

• double rastrum 1
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 18
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 2

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

• 1-part single page 3
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 10
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 20
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part opening 18
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 8
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 2
• 8-part opening 2

• double 2
• none 12
• single 14

• empty ruled staves on grid 21
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 3
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 2
• not in dedicated space 21
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 10
• notation and staves extended into margin 17
• notation extended into margin 15
• other 1
• partial additional staves 9
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 12
• brown 9
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 2

• chant (square) 4
• full mensural 3
• strene notation 1
• void mensural 21

• absent 12
• present 10

• fair 10
• high 6
• poor 1
• very high 5

• coronae 3
• end symbol 9
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 14
• signa congruentiae 12
• signes-de-renvoi 18
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 7
• English 1
• Flemish 2
• French 13
• German 1
• Italian 9
• Latin 19
• Spanish 6
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 13
• fully texted with one text 18
• fully texted with two or more texts 3
• fully texted with two texts 3
• partially texted with one or two texts 6
• partially texted with one text 12
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 14
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 15

• cursive 6
• cursive (Anglicana) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 6
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• display script 3
• hybrida 3
• roman 1
• textura 3

• fair 12
• high 6
• poor 1
• very high 5

• black 12
• brown 9
• dark brown 5
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 4
• yellow 1

• no 8
• yes 18

• always 1
• never 3
• rarely 6

• always 1
• never 3
• rarely 6

• full and partial borders 1
• full borders 1
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 4

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

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 5
• flourished 2
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• trompe l'oeil 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• normally 10
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 5
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 11
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 3
• flourished 4
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 5

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

• Guide letters only 1

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

• decorative final long 6
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2