PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 42
• Italy (North) 1

• Bologna 2
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 1
• Florence 18
• Fossombrone 2
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Milan 1
• Modena 1
• Naples 3
• Padua 1
• Pisa 1
• Pordenone 1
• Rome 3
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 6

• Manuscript 34
• Printed work 8

• choirbook 28
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 9
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 32
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 7
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 18
• upright 23

• always 1
• n/a 8
• never 7
• none visible 22
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 7
• brown 18
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• red 1
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 3

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 5
• freehand 2
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 20
• straightedge 1
• triple rastrum 11

• 1 1
• 10 6
• 11 4
• 3 5
• 4 8
• 5 6
• 6 18
• 7 6
• 8 2
• 9 5

• 1-part single page 15
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 10
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 25
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 10
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 31
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 15
• 5-part opening 13
• 6-part opening 4

• double 6
• none 27
• single 15

• empty ruled staves on grid 25
• left between voice parts as part of grid 4
• none 8
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 2

• no separate text 28
• not in dedicated space 13
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 6
• notation and staves extended into margin 26
• notation extended into margin 16
• partial additional staves 10
• staveline added 5
• staves extended into margin 4

• black 21
• brown 19
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• red-brown 1

• chant (square) 1
• full mensural 4
• void mensural 40

• absent 40
• present 3

• fair 22
• high 13
• n/a 8
• very high 1

• coronae 9
• custodes 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 2
• repeat signs 15
• signa congruentiae 21
• signes-de-renvoi 16

• Dutch 5
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 22
• Latin 34
• Spanish 6

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 17
• fully texted with one text 28
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 3
• untexted 19

• antiqua 2
• cursive 4
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 10
• cursive (italic) 11
• display script 1
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 5
• rotonda 6
• textura 3
• various 1

• fair 23
• high 11
• n/a 8
• poor 3
• very high 2

• black 16
• blue 2
• brown 23
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 6
• red-brown 1
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 26
• yes 20

• rarely 3

• rarely 6

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

• normally 2
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• decorated 6
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 5
• normally 15
• occasionally 3
• often 4
• rarely 5
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 18
• calligraphic with decoration 5
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 7
• decorated 1
• flourished 6
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 1
• plain initials 11

• always 2
• normally 5
• occasionally 3
• often 2
• rarely 3
• sometimes 5

• Guide letters only 3

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

• decorated letters 2
• decorative final long 7
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 2
• littera notabilior 1
• ornament 1
• signes-de-renvoi 1