PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 4
• France 3
• Great Britain 1
• Italy 16
• Spain 4

• Bourges 1
• Brussels 2
• Catalonia 1
• Cognac 1
• Ferrara 2
• Florence 11
• France 2
• Italy 3
• London 1
• Mantua 1
• Mechelen 4
• Naples 1
• Netherlands 1
• Paris 1
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 2
• Siena 2
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1
• Zaragoza 1

• Manuscript 37

• choirbook 31
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (incomplete set) 2
• tablebook 1

• paper 24
• paper (with parchment) 2
• parchment 10
• parchment (with paper) 1

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 7
• upright 29

• always 10
• never 4
• none visible 18
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 2
• sometimes 1

• black 10
• brown 18
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• light brown 2
• reddish brown 2

• double and single rastra 1
• double rastrum 5
• freehand 4
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 29
• straightedge 2
• triple rastrum 6

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

• 1-part single page 12
• 2-part opening 11
• 2-part score 2
• 2-part single page 9
• 3-part opening 27
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 11
• 4-part opening 32
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 13
• 5-part opening 14
• 6-part opening 4
• 8-part opening 1

• double 8
• none 17
• quintuple 1
• single 27
• triple 5

• empty ruled staves on grid 35
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 2
• staves not ruled on grid 7
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 20
• not in dedicated space 16
• provided, in dedicated space 6

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 16
• notation and staves extended into margin 34
• notation extended into margin 37
• other 2
• partial additional staves 17
• staveline added 14
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 14
• blue 1
• brown 21
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• red 1

• chant (square) 6
• full mensural 5
• void mensural 36

• absent 29
• present 9

• fair 12
• high 18
• poor 1
• very high 7

• coronae 6
• end symbol 12
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 20
• signa congruentiae 25
• signes-de-renvoi 26
• space-filler 4

• Dutch 6
• English 1
• Flemish 1
• French 21
• German 1
• Italian 12
• Latin 30
• Spanish 7

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 17
• fully texted with one text 31
• fully texted with two or more texts 5
• fully texted with two texts 4
• partially texted with one or two texts 5
• partially texted with one text 16
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 2
• provided with one or two incipits 6
• provided with single incipit 25
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 23

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

• fair 14
• high 19
• poor 4
• very high 5

• black 13
• blue 2
• brown 23
• dark brown 6
• gold 1
• grey 1
• red 13
• yellow 1

• no 19
• yes 22

• never 4
• rarely 7

• always 1
• never 4
• rarely 9

• full borders 5
• partial borders: one-sided 1
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 3

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 3
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• decorated 6
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 3
• normally 12
• occasionally 5
• often 7
• rarely 8
• sometimes 3

• calligraphic 15
• calligraphic with decoration 11
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 9
• decorated 3
• decorated with grotesque heads 4
• flourished 3
• historiated 1
• plain initials 4

• never 3
• normally 8
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 10
• sometimes 4

• Guide letters only 3

• always 1
• never 5
• normally 2
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 7
• sometimes 1

• banner 2
• decorative final long 6
• end-symbol 4
• littera notabilior 5
• signes-de-renvoi 1