Contains the Miracles of Gautier de Coincy written in 2 cols. Both the polyphonic songs appear in this source: the first is a contrafactum of the two lower voices of the conductus Purgator criminum (W1 178), the second is another version of Perotin's Beata viscera with counterpoint.

red morocco with gilt tooling was for the Colbert library (in which the MS was no. 1628); 17th century

undifferentiated square notes (often like breves, reminiscent of the notation of the Notre Dame school)

13 red four-line staves per page (monophony); 2 red four-line, occasionally five-lines staves in 6 accolades (polyphony)

There is no old foliation, but a 17th or 18th century ink one appears at t.r.r. The parchment flyleaves at the front and the same at the back are unnumbered

red-blue initials or vice versa.

ii+ 256 parchment + 2 paper + 2 parchment

RISM B/IV 1: A 13th century parchment manuscript meas. 262 x 180 mm. and containing 256 folios + 2 unnumbered paper and 2 unnumbered parchment flyleaves at the front and the same at the back. The contents are the Miracles of Gautier de Coincy written in a rather rougher but similar script to GautierN. There is no old foliation, but a 17th or 18th century ink one appears at t.r.r. The 17th century binding of red morocco with gilt tooling was for the Colbert library, in which the ms was no. 1628. The text of the Miracles is written in 2 cols, with red-blue initials or vice versa. The monody is written on 13 red four-line staves per page, while the polyphony is usually on 2 red four-line, occasionally five-lines staves in 6 accolades. The undifferentiated square notes, often like breves, are reminiscent of the notation of the Notre Dame school. Both the polyphonic songs appear in this source: the first is a contrafactum of the two lower voices of the conductus Purgator criminum (W1 178), the second is another version of Perotin's Beata viscera with counterpoint.

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