PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 41
• Italy (North) 1

• Bologna 3
• Casale Monferrato 2
• Ferrara 6
• Florence 12
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 3
• Milan 1
• Modena 2
• Naples 3
• Padua 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 6
• Siena 1
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 3
• Verona 1

• Manuscript 38
• Printed work 3

• choirbook 32
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 2
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 3
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1

• paper 30
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 10

• oblong 10
• upright 31

• always 6
• n/a 3
• never 8
• none visible 22
• normally 2
• often 1
• rarely 1

• black 11
• brown 17
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 3
• reddish brown 3

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 8
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 22
• straightedge 4
• triple rastrum 9

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

• 1-part single page 7
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 14
• 2-part single page 7
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 25
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 33
• 4-part single page 9
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 14
• 6-part opening 5
• 8-part opening 1

• double 9
• none 31
• single 10

• empty ruled staves on grid 30
• left between voice parts as part of grid 3
• none 7
• staves not ruled on grid 1

• no separate text 31
• not in dedicated space 12
• provided, in dedicated space 5

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 8
• notation and staves extended into margin 27
• notation extended into margin 19
• partial additional staves 13
• staveline added 4
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 25
• blue 1
• brown 14
• dark brown 3
• gold 2
• light brown 2
• red 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 39

• absent 36
• present 7

• fair 19
• high 15
• n/a 3
• very high 5

• coronae 5
• cue notes 1
• end symbol 4
• none 1
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 12
• signa congruentiae 17
• signes-de-renvoi 20
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 5
• Flemish 1
• French 16
• German 1
• Italian 13
• Latin 38
• Spanish 4

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 9
• fully texted with one text 31
• fully texted with two or more texts 1
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 3
• partially texted with one text 10
• provided with one or two incipits 5
• provided with single incipit 21
• untexted 17

• Italic 1
• antiqua 3
• cursive 8
• cursive (Italianate) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 2
• cursive (humanistic) 4
• cursive (italic) 9
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 2
• roman 2
• rotonda 2
• textura 13
• various 1

• fair 20
• high 15
• n/a 3
• poor 3
• very high 5

• black 21
• blue 1
• brown 20
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 4
• yellow 1

• no 29
• yes 16

• rarely 8

• rarely 10

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 4
• partial borders: two-sided 5

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

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 9
• flourished 3
• plain initials 1

• always 5
• normally 18
• occasionally 5
• often 6
• rarely 3
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 21
• calligraphic with decoration 8
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 8
• decorated 2
• flourished 12
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 2
• plain initials 7

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

• Guide letters only 2

• always 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 4
• often 6
• rarely 3
• sometimes 5

• decorated letters 4
• decorative final long 8
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 4
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 1
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 2