PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 25

• Bologna 2
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 2
• Florence 10
• Fossombrone 2
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 1
• Modena 1
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Rome 2
• Siena 3
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 22
• Printed work 3

• choirbook 19
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4

• paper 21
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 2
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 10
• upright 15

• always 7
• n/a 3
• never 6
• none visible 10
• rarely 1

• black 9
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 4
• freehand 1
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 12
• triple rastrum 6

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

• 1-part single page 9
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 6
• 2-part single page 5
• 3-part opening 13
• 3-part single page 4
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 19
• 4-part single page 8
• 5-part opening 7
• 6-part opening 1
• n/a 1

• double 3
• none 15
• single 10

• empty ruled staves on grid 15
• left between voice parts as part of grid 3
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 19
• not in dedicated space 8
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 7
• notation and staves extended into margin 16
• notation extended into margin 10
• partial additional staves 9
• staveline added 3
• staves extended into margin 2

• black 14
• brown 12
• dark brown 2
• gold 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 24

• absent 21
• present 5

• fair 14
• high 8
• n/a 3
• very high 2

• coronae 3
• end symbol 2
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 7
• signa congruentiae 7
• signes-de-renvoi 9
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 4
• Flemish 2
• French 12
• German 1
• Italian 12
• Latin 22
• Spanish 5

• fully texted with one or two texts 6
• fully texted with one text 18
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 1
• partially texted with one text 5
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 1
• provided with single incipit 13
• provided with two incipits 1
• untexted 10

• Italic 1
• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 3
• cursive (humanistic) 6
• cursive (italic) 6
• display script 2
• hybrida 1
• roman 3
• textura 4

• fair 16
• high 7
• n/a 3
• poor 2
• very high 1

• black 13
• blue 2
• brown 12
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 4
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 17
• yes 11

• rarely 4

• rarely 3

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 2

• normally 1
• rarely 3
• sometimes 1

• decorated 3
• historiated 1

• always 4
• normally 6
• occasionally 2
• often 3
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 11
• calligraphic with decoration 2
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 4
• decorated 1
• flourished 6
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 5

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

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorated letters 2
• decorative final long 4
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 1
• signa congruentiae 1