PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• Italy 62
• Italy (North) 1

• Bologna 6
• Casale Monferrato 3
• Ferrara 7
• Florence 20
• Fossombrone 2
• Italy 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 3
• Milan 2
• Modena 4
• Naples 4
• Padua 1
• Pisa 1
• Rome 6
• Siena 1
• Staffarda 1
• Turin 1
• Venice 5
• Verona 2

• Manuscript 55
• Printed work 7

• choirbook 46
• music treatise(s) containing polyphony 2
• music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony 1
• non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 2
• partbooks (complete set) 8
• polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 48
• paper (with parchment) 1
• parchment 13

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 21
• upright 40

• always 10
• n/a 7
• never 9
• none visible 32
• normally 2
• occasionally 1
• often 1
• rarely 1
• sometimes 1

• black 16
• brown 27
• dark brown 10
• gold 1
• light brown 3
• red 3
• reddish brown 3

• double and single rastra 2
• double rastrum 10
• freehand 3
• quadruple rastrum 2
• single rastrum 34
• straightedge 4
• triple rastrum 16

• 1 2
• 10 14
• 11 7
• 12 1
• 13 2
• 14 1
• 15 1
• 2 2
• 3 7
• 4 11
• 5 8
• 6 19
• 7 5
• 8 3
• 9 9

• 1-part single page 16
• 2-part consecutive 2
• 2-part opening 20
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 13
• 3-part consecutive 2
• 3-part opening 37
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 15
• 4-part consecutive 2
• 4-part opening 47
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 16
• 5-part consecutive 1
• 5-part opening 20
• 6-part opening 7
• 8-part opening 1
• n/a 1

• double 11
• none 43
• single 19

• empty ruled staves on grid 42
• left between voice parts as part of grid 4
• none 11
• staves not ruled 1
• staves not ruled on grid 3

• no separate text 41
• not in dedicated space 22
• provided, in dedicated space 9

• Indentation for initials filled in 4
• made for complete additional staves 12
• notation and staves extended into margin 41
• notation extended into margin 27
• partial additional staves 19
• staveline added 10
• staves extended into margin 5

• black 34
• blue 1
• brown 26
• dark brown 4
• gold 2
• light brown 2
• red 2

• chant (square) 2
• full mensural 4
• not specified 1
• void mensural 59

• absent 53
• present 11

• fair 30
• high 21
• n/a 7
• very high 5

• coronae 9
• cue notes 2
• custodes 1
• end symbol 8
• none 1
• pointers 5
• repeat signs 19
• signa congruentiae 24
• signes-de-renvoi 28
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 6
• Flemish 2
• French 25
• German 1
• Italian 24
• Latin 52
• Spanish 8

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 18
• fully texted with one text 43
• fully texted with two or more texts 2
• fully texted with two texts 1
• partially texted with one or two texts 6
• partially texted with one text 15
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with multiple incipits 1
• provided with one or two incipits 10
• provided with single incipit 30
• provided with two incipits 2
• untexted 24

• Italic 1
• antiqua 4
• cursive 9
• cursive (Italianate) 1
• cursive (bastarda) 4
• cursive (humanistic) 7
• cursive (italic) 14
• display script 2
• humanistic 1
• hybrida 3
• roman 5
• rotonda 4
• textura 16
• various 1

• fair 31
• high 19
• n/a 7
• poor 5
• very high 5

• black 32
• blue 2
• brown 32
• dark brown 4
• gold 1
• light brown 1
• red 8
• reddish brown 1
• yellow 1

• no 39
• yes 27

• rarely 8

• rarely 12

• full borders 1
• partial borders: one-sided 5
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 6

• normally 5
• occasionally 2
• often 3
• rarely 5
• sometimes 1

• calligraphic 1
• decorated 10
• flourished 3
• plain initials 1
• zoomorphic initial 1

• always 7
• normally 25
• occasionally 5
• often 8
• rarely 6
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 29
• calligraphic with decoration 11
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 11
• decorated 2
• flourished 15
• historiated 1
• littera notabilior 4
• plain initials 10

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

• Guide letters only 3

• always 1
• normally 4
• occasionally 4
• often 6
• rarely 7
• sometimes 7

• decorated letters 5
• decorative final long 11
• diagrams 1
• embellished final barline 5
• end-symbol 3
• littera notabilior 2
• ornament 1
• signa congruentiae 1
• signes-de-renvoi 2