PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 41

• Bologna 1
• Casale Monferrato 1
• Ferrara 6
• Florence 17
• Fossombrone 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 2
• Milan 4
• Modena 3
• Naples 2
• Padua 2
• Rome 2
• Siena 2
• Venice 2

• Manuscript 37
• Printed work 4

• choirbook 32
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 6
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 28
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 9
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 16
• upright 24

• always 10
• n/a 4
• never 4
• none visible 20
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 11
• brown 20
• dark brown 5
• gold 2
• light brown 2
• reddish brown 3

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 10
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 24
• triple rastrum 11

• 1 1
• 10 6
• 11 4
• 12 4
• 13 1
• 14 1
• 15 1
• 3 5
• 4 7
• 5 4
• 6 10
• 7 4
• 8 2
• 9 6

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part opening 9
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part opening 22
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 10
• 4-part opening 31
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 12
• 5-part opening 9
• 6-part opening 6
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 2

• double 3
• none 27
• single 14

• empty ruled staves on grid 31
• left between voice parts as part of grid 2
• none 8
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 24
• not in dedicated space 15
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 1
• made for complete additional staves 9
• notation and staves extended into margin 30
• notation extended into margin 18
• partial additional staves 9
• staveline added 7
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 23
• brown 18
• dark brown 1
• gold 2
• red 1

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 2
• void mensural 40

• absent 36
• present 6

• fair 18
• high 14
• n/a 4
• very high 5

• coronae 5
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 3
• none 1
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 17
• signa congruentiae 16
• signes-de-renvoi 19
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 4
• Flemish 1
• French 19
• Italian 21
• Latin 32
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 14
• fully texted with one text 27
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 9
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 17

• Italic 1
• antiqua 1
• cursive 6
• cursive (Italianate) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 9
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 2
• roman 4
• rotonda 1
• textura 8
• various 1

• fair 16
• high 15
• n/a 4
• poor 2
• very high 3

• black 16
• blue 2
• brown 21
• dark brown 2
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 5

• no 22
• yes 21

• often 1
• rarely 8

• rarely 8

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 1
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 6

• normally 4
• often 2
• rarely 3
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 7
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 7
• normally 15
• occasionally 4
• often 4
• rarely 3
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 17
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• decorated 1
• flourished 9
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 8

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

• Guide letters only 2

• always 1
• normally 5
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 3
• sometimes 4

• Voice-names 1
• decorated letters 2
• decorative final long 7
• embellished final barline 3
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1