PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 2
• Italy 18
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Florence 11
• France 5
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 1
• Modena 3
• Naples 1
• Paris 2
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Siena 2
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 30

• choirbook 22
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 23
• parchment 7

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 9
• upright 20

• always 5
• never 4
• none visible 18
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• sometimes 1

• black 1
• brown 20
• dark brown 5
• light brown 2
• red 2
• reddish brown 1

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 3
• freehand 1
• single rastrum 19
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 7

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

• 1-part single page 11
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 9
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 20
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 21
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 7
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 3
• 8-part opening 1

• none 16
• single 17

• empty ruled staves on grid 22
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 3
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 9
• not in dedicated space 18
• provided, in dedicated space 8

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 8
• notation and staves extended into margin 25
• notation extended into margin 16
• other 1
• partial additional staves 14
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 4
• brown 30
• light brown 1

• full mensural 1
• void mensural 29

• absent 25
• present 5

• fair 21
• high 8
• poor 1
• very high 1

• coronae 1
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 21
• signa congruentiae 12
• signes-de-renvoi 16
• space-filler 2

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 17
• Latin 25
• Spanish 6
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 19
• fully texted with one text 22
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 9
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 9
• provided with single incipit 19
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 18

• cursive 6
• cursive (bastarda) 7
• cursive (humanistic) 3
• cursive (italic) 8
• display script 1
• hybrida 6
• roman 1
• textura 3

• fair 17
• high 10
• poor 4

• black 5
• blue 2
• brown 25
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1
• red 5
• yellow 1

• no 14
• yes 19

• never 1
• rarely 5

• always 1
• never 1
• rarely 4

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

• always 2
• normally 4
• occasionally 1
• rarely 3

• calligraphic with decoration 1
• decorated 6
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• normally 10
• occasionally 3
• often 5
• rarely 4
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 10
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 5
• flourished 5
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 7

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

• Guide letters only 3

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 2
• sometimes 2

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