PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 6
• France 1
• Italy 21
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Bologna 2
• Bruges 1
• Brussels 3
• Ferrara 2
• Flanders 1
• Florence 13
• France 6
• Italy 2
• Italy (North) 3
• Mantua 3
• Mechelen 5
• Naples 2
• Padua 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 2
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 2
• Switzerland 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 42

• chansonnier 1
• choirbook 31
• composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• partbooks (incomplete set) 2

• paper 24
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 14
• parchment and paper (mixed) 1

• oblong 14
• upright 28

• always 5
• never 6
• none visible 25
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 10
• brown 18
• dark brown 7
• gold 1
• light brown 5
• red 2
• reddish brown 3

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 29
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 9

• 1 1
• 10 11
• 11 3
• 12 1
• 13 1
• 2 3
• 3 5
• 4 4
• 5 7
• 6 16
• 7 12
• 8 16
• 9 10

• 1-part single page 17
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 14
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part opening 35
• 3-part score 2
• 3-part single page 14
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 31
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 15
• 5-part opening 14
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 4
• 8-part opening 1

• double 7
• none 24
• quadruple 1
• single 23
• triple 5

• empty ruled staves on grid 35
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 6
• staves not ruled on grid 6

• no separate text 22
• not in dedicated space 23
• provided, in dedicated space 7

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 15
• none 1
• notation and staves extended into margin 32
• notation extended into margin 21
• other 1
• partial additional staves 16
• staveline added 9
• staves extended into margin 6

• black 17
• brown 24
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 41

• absent 38
• present 6

• fair 20
• high 18
• poor 2
• very high 5

• coronae 2
• end symbol 7
• pointers 6
• repeat signs 26
• signa congruentiae 20
• signes-de-renvoi 27
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 11
• Flemish 5
• French 42
• German 1
• Italian 23
• Latin 37
• Spanish 11
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 24
• fully texted with one text 30
• fully texted with two or more texts 6
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 8
• partially texted with one text 20
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 35
• provided with two incipits 4
• untexted 30

• cursive 10
• cursive (bastarda) 14
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 8
• display script 7
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 6
• roman 2
• textura 1

• fair 22
• high 18
• poor 7
• very high 3

• black 17
• blue 2
• brown 24
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 9
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 18
• yes 30

• never 2
• rarely 10

• always 2
• never 3
• occasionally 1
• rarely 9

• full and partial borders 2
• full borders 3
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 1
• partial borders: one-sided 2
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

• always 3
• never 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 2
• rarely 8
• sometimes 1

• decorated 11
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 2
• normally 18
• occasionally 5
• often 7
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 17
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• plain initials 8

• always 2
• never 2
• normally 4
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 9
• sometimes 6

• Guide letters only 2

• never 4
• normally 3
• occasionally 5
• often 2
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• banner 1
• decorated letters 1
• decorative final long 4
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1