A miscellaneous collection of writings on medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, poetry, perfumery, and other topics. Music is found on various folios between f. 1 and f. 65. Many of the textless pieces appear to be exercises in writing counterpoints over a cantus firmus. The manuscript also contains one monophonic piece, in chant notation. Copied by many scribes. Copied in Barcelona and neighboring Catalonian cities. The various sections were probably compiled by friars from a monastery somewhere in Catalonia. The location of the MS is not known: it was last in the possession of an unidentified bibliophile clergyman (now deceased) at Villafranca del Panades. The clergyman purchased the manuscript from the antiquarian bookseller Josep Porté (Porter) in Barcelona, sometime during the 1930's (Snow). Although the MS was never at the Biblioteca de L'Orfeó Català, a complete set of photographs of the manuscript is now preserved at this library, under the shelf number listed above.

Original covers of red morocco leather.

black void mensural

The photographs at the Barcelona library have modern stamped numbering of openings; no original foliation is visible

paper

2 Requiem Masses, 1 Requiem Mass section, 4 Kyries, portions of 2 Credos, 2 Sanctus, 2 Mass Proper sections, 1 Magnificat verse, 1 psalm, 2 hymns, 1 motet, 1 Catalan sacred piece, 2 Catalan secular pieces, 1 Spanish secular piece, 3 pieces with uniden-tified text, 28 textless pieces, 1 fragment =54 + 2 duplicates = 56

Cots-3, Cubells-1, Pujol (not Juan)-6, anon-46

252 paper folios, ca. 170 x 115 (folios vary somewhat in size). The photographs at the Barcelona library have modern stamped numbering of openings; no original foliation is visible. Original covers of red morocco leather. No index. Copied by many scribes. The manuscript is a miscellaneous collection of writings on medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, poetry, perfumery, and other topics. Music is found on various folios between f. 1 and f. 65. Many of the textless pieces appear to be exercises in writing counterpoints over a cantus firmus. In addition to the polyphony listed above, the manuscript also contains one monophonic piece, in chant notation.

1539-49 (dates in manuscript). Copied in Barcelona and neighboring Catalonian cities. The various sections were probably compiled by friars from a monastery somewhere in Catalonia. The present location of the manuscript is unknown; it was last known to be in the possession of a bibliophile clergyman (now deceased) at Villafranca del Panades. The clergyman, whose name has not been ascertained, purchased the manuscript from the antiquarian bookseller Josep Porté (Porter) in Barcelona, sometime during the 1930's (Snow). The manuscript itself was never at the Biblioteca de L'Orfeó Català, but a complete set of photographs of the manuscript is now preserved at this library, under the shelf number listed above. An incomplete set of photographs of the same manuscript is also preserved at the Biblioteca Central in Barcelona, under the call number M.F. 154.