PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Belgium 3
• Italy 11
• Spain 5
• Switzerland 1

• Basel 1
• Belgium 1
• Brussels 2
• Catalonia 2
• Ferrara 2
• Florence 7
• France 3
• Girona 1
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 1
• Mantua 2
• Mechelen 3
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Tarazona 1
• Toledo 1
• Zaragoza 1

• Manuscript 25

• choirbook 20
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 2

• paper 14
• paper (with parchment) 3
• parchment 7
• parchment (with paper) 1

• oblong 5
• upright 20

• always 4
• never 2
• none visible 16
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 2

• black 9
• brown 11
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 4
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 1
• single rastrum 20
• triple rastrum 3

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

• 1-part single page 10
• 2-part opening 7
• 2-part single page 6
• 3-part opening 18
• 3-part single page 7
• 4-part opening 19
• 4-part single page 11
• 5-part opening 13
• 5-part single page 2
• 6-part opening 3
• 8-part opening 1

• double 4
• none 14
• single 16
• triple 2

• empty ruled staves on grid 21
• left below voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 4
• staves not ruled on grid 2
• variable space, not on grid 2

• no separate text 13
• not in dedicated space 11
• provided, in dedicated space 3

• Indentation for initials filled in 3
• made for complete additional staves 8
• notation and staves extended into margin 23
• notation extended into margin 18
• other 1
• partial additional staves 11
• staveline added 9
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 11
• brown 14
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 1
• reddish brown 1

• chant (square) 4
• full mensural 3
• void mensural 25

• absent 20
• present 6

• fair 11
• high 10
• poor 2
• very high 3

• coronae 5
• end symbol 7
• pointers 4
• repeat signs 25
• signa congruentiae 16
• signes-de-renvoi 20
• space-filler 4

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 16
• German 1
• Italian 10
• Latin 23
• Spanish 4
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 2
• fully texted with one or two texts 14
• fully texted with one text 23
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 5
• partially texted with one or two texts 4
• partially texted with one text 13
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 8
• provided with single incipit 19
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 17

• cursive 6
• cursive (bastarda) 7
• cursive (humanistic) 5
• cursive (italic) 3
• display script 4
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 4
• roman 2
• textura 2

• fair 11
• high 12
• poor 3
• very high 2

• black 11
• blue 2
• brown 13
• dark brown 3
• gold 1
• grey 1
• light brown 1
• red 5
• reddish brown 1

• no 10
• yes 19

• never 4
• rarely 9

• never 4
• rarely 7

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

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

• decorated 7
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 2
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 2

• always 2
• normally 11
• occasionally 2
• often 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 2

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 7
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 5
• decorated 3
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• plain initials 5

• never 1
• normally 2
• often 2
• rarely 7
• sometimes 1

• always 1
• never 2
• normally 3
• occasionally 2
• rarely 4
• sometimes 1

• banner 1
• decorative final long 3
• embellished final barline 1
• end-symbol 5
• littera notabilior 4