PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

• France 2
• Italy 14
• Spain 2

• Belgium 1
• Florence 11
• France 6
• Glarus, Switzerland 1
• Italy (North) 2
• Mantua 1
• Modena 1
• Naples 1
• Paris 2
• Rome 1
• Segovia 1
• Seville 1
• Spain 1
• Toledo 1

• Manuscript 27

• choirbook 19
• music treatise(s) with appended polyphony 1
• partbook (single) 1
• partbooks (complete set) 4
• printed treatise with added polyphony 1
• tablebook 1

• paper 19
• parchment 8

• bound upright but prepared oblong 1
• oblong 9
• upright 17

• always 2
• never 4
• none visible 17
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• sometimes 2

• black 1
• brown 17
• dark brown 5
• light brown 2
• red 2
• reddish brown 1

• double rastrum 2
• freehand 1
• single rastrum 17
• straightedge 3
• triple rastrum 7

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

• 1-part single page 11
• 2-part opening 8
• 2-part score 1
• 2-part single page 9
• 3-part consecutive 1
• 3-part opening 21
• 3-part score 1
• 3-part single page 9
• 4-part consecutive 1
• 4-part opening 18
• 4-part score 1
• 4-part single page 10
• 5-part opening 7
• 5-part single page 1
• 6-part opening 2
• 8-part opening 1

• none 14
• single 16

• empty ruled staves on grid 19
• left between voice parts as part of grid 1
• none 5
• staves not ruled on grid 3
• variable space, not on grid 1

• no separate text 6
• not in dedicated space 17
• provided, in dedicated space 9

• Indentation for initials filled in 2
• made for complete additional staves 6
• notation and staves extended into margin 23
• notation extended into margin 14
• other 1
• partial additional staves 12
• staveline added 6
• staves extended into margin 3

• black 3
• brown 27
• light brown 1

• full mensural 1
• void mensural 26

• absent 24
• present 3

• fair 18
• high 7
• poor 1
• very high 2

• coronae 1
• end symbol 5
• pointers 3
• repeat signs 21
• signa congruentiae 12
• signes-de-renvoi 14
• space-filler 1

• Dutch 7
• Flemish 1
• French 22
• German 1
• Italian 17
• Latin 23
• Spanish 6
• n/a 1

• fully texted and provided with incipit 1
• fully texted with one or two texts 19
• fully texted with one text 19
• fully texted with two texts 2
• partially texted with one or two texts 9
• partially texted with one text 16
• partially texted with two texts 1
• provided with one or two incipits 9
• provided with single incipit 20
• provided with two incipits 4
• untexted 19

• cursive 5
• cursive (bastarda) 8
• cursive (humanistic) 2
• cursive (italic) 8
• display script 1
• hybrida 6
• roman 1
• textura 1

• fair 15
• high 9
• poor 4
• very high 1

• black 5
• blue 2
• brown 22
• dark brown 2
• light brown 1
• red 5
• yellow 1

• no 12
• yes 18

• never 1
• rarely 4

• always 1
• never 1
• rarely 4

• full borders 2
• partial borders: three-sided 1
• partial borders: two- and three-sided 1
• partial borders: two-sided 2

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

• calligraphic with decoration 2
• decorated 6
• decorated with grotesque heads 1
• flourished 1
• historiated 1
• zoomorphic initial 2

• normally 10
• occasionally 3
• often 3
• rarely 3
• sometimes 4

• calligraphic 9
• calligraphic with decoration 6
• calligraphic with grotesque heads 6
• flourished 4
• historiated 1
• plain initials 7
• zoomorphic initial 1

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

• Guide letters only 3

• always 1
• never 1
• normally 1
• occasionally 1
• often 3
• rarely 2

• decorated letters 2
• decorative final long 2
• end-symbol 1
• littera notabilior 3