PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 45

• Bologna 1
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 3
• Florence 19
• Fossombrone 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 3
• Mantua 4
• Milan 3
• Modena 1
• Naples 2
• Padua 2
• Pisa 1
• Rome 3
• Siena 2
• Venice 5
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 40
• Printed work 5

• choirbook 32
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 1
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 7
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 32
• paper (with parchment) 4
• parchment 8
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 19
• upright 26

• always 8
• n/a 5
• never 6
• none visible 25
• normally 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 7
• brown 23
• dark brown 9
• gold 2
• light brown 2
• red 1
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 6
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 23
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 13

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

• 1-part single page 15
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 15
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 11
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 27
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 32
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 13
• 5-part opening 12
• 6-part opening 3
• n/a 2

• double 4
• none 29
• single 17

• empty ruled staves on grid 31
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 9
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 29
• not in dedicated space 17
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 12
• notation and staves extended into margin 31
• notation extended into margin 19
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 8
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 24
• brown 23
• dark brown 2
• gold 2
• light brown 1
• red 2

• chant (square) 3
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 43

• absent 41
• present 6

• fair 22
• high 15
• n/a 5
• very high 3

• coronae 7
• custodes 1
• end symbol 7
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 18
• signa congruentiae 19
• signes-de-renvoi 17
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 23
• Latin 36
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 18
• fully texted with one text 32
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 13
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 26
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 21

• antiqua 1
• cursive 7
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 8
• cursive (italic) 10
• display script 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 4
• rotonda 4
• textura 9
• various 1

• fair 25
• high 16
• n/a 5
• poor 1
• very high 2

• black 17
• blue 2
• brown 26
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 8
• yellow 1

• no 25
• yes 24

• often 1
• rarely 4

• rarely 5

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

• normally 4
• rarely 4
• sometimes 1

• decorated 6
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 6
• normally 15
• occasionally 5
• often 4
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 18
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 10
• decorated 1
• flourished 10
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 3
• plain initials 8

• always 3
• normally 7
• occasionally 3
• often 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 2

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

• decorated letters 3
• decorative final long 10
• embellished final barline 2
• end-symbol 5
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1