PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 17
• Germany 1
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 15
• Switzerland 1

• Antwerp 1
• Basel 1
• Brussels 10
• Casale Monferrato 1
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 6
• Germany (South) 1
• Italy 2
• Italy (North) 1
• London 1
• Mantua 2
• Mechelen 15
• Milan 1
• Naples 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 2
• Spain 1
• Venice 1
• Verona 1
• Wittenberg 1

• Manuscript 43

• choirbook 34
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 5
• partbooks (incomplete set) 1
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 19
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 20
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 8
• upright 35

• always 16
• never 4
• none visible 17
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 4
• sometimes 1

• black 26
• brown 14
• dark brown 7
• light brown 1
• red 1

• double rastrum 1
• freehand 1
• printed staves 1
• single rastrum 34
• straightedge 4
• triple rastrum 5

• 1 2
• 10 27
• 11 14
• 12 5
• 13 2
• 2 4
• 3 8
• 4 5
• 5 9
• 6 14
• 7 17
• 8 21
• 9 24

• 1-part single page 17
• 2-part consecutive 1
• 2-part opening 18
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 28
• 3-part single page 6
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 33
• 4-part single page 7
• 5-part opening 23
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 8
• 7-part opening 1
• n/a 1

• double 25
• none 18
• quadruple 3
• single 24
• triple 14

• empty ruled staves on grid 36
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 7
• staves not ruled 3
• staves not ruled on grid 19
• variable space, not on grid 4

• no separate text 34
• not in dedicated space 9
• provided, in dedicated space 4

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 10
• notation and staves extended into margin 28
• notation extended into margin 13
• other 1
• partial additional staves 15
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 31
• brown 11
• dark brown 3
• light brown 1
• red 5

• chant (square) 4
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 42

• absent 36
• present 9

• fair 12
• high 14
• poor 1
• very high 17

• coronae 3
• custodes 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 1
• repeat signs 14
• signa congruentiae 24
• signes-de-renvoi 29
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 2
• Flemish 3
• French 19
• German 1
• Italian 11
• Latin 39
• Spanish 2

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 12
• fully texted with one text 33
• fully texted with two or more texts 12
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 2
• partially texted with one text 5
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 13
• untexted 9

• antiqua 1
• cursive 4
• cursive (German) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 24
• cursive (humanistic) 3
• cursive (italic) 6
• display script 19
• hybrida 2
• roman 1
• textura 7

• fair 13
• high 15
• poor 3
• very high 17

• black 29
• blue 2
• brown 14
• dark brown 3
• red 26

• no 17
• yes 28

• always 1
• never 2
• rarely 21

• never 4
• occasionally 1
• rarely 17

• full and partial borders 2
• full borders 4
• partial borders: one- and two-sided 2
• partial borders: one-sided 4
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

• never 4
• normally 1
• often 1
• rarely 19
• sometimes 1

• decorated 4
• decorated with grotesque heads 2
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• plain initials 1
• trompe l'oeil 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 43
• occasionally 9
• often 2
• rarely 8
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 18
• calligraphic with decoration 10
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 13
• decorated 3
• decorated with grotesque heads 4
• flourished 7
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 7

• never 11
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 10
• sometimes 1

• always 1
• never 14
• normally 4
• occasionally 4
• often 2
• rarely 2
• sometimes 2

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