RISM B/IV 2: A 14th century vellum manuscript meas. 212 x 160 mm. and containing ii + 184 folios. In addition, there is 1 blank unnumbered paper flyleaf at each end belonging to the modern green parchment binding with gilt arms at the front and back. There is no foliation for f. i-ii, but f. 1-184 is foliated in 19th century ink at t.r.r. The ms corpus is the Summa Fratris Gwilleri(?) prioris Lugdunensis (perhaps the name is Guilelmus). These are sermons in a neat minuscule in 2 cols, with red, blue or red-blue initials (f. 1-179). Fol. 180-184 doubtless belong with f. i-ii. These pages include a Corpus Christi Office with some notes. Initials and rubrics are red in this section. 14th century Gothic neumes appear mostly on f. 180-180v. Fol. 184v and f. i-ii are entirely in black ink, except that f. i verso-ii verso are blank (that is, if we do not take into account the continuous brown lines drawn to take music and text). The clefs used are c and f. The three-part polyphony in score on f. 1 appears only for the initial words "Dominus vobiscum" and, repeated, for the following words "Secundum Matheum". This is followed by "Initium sancti evangelii. Liber generationis" in monody (the neumes stop half-way down the page). The Antiphon "Dilectus meus loquitur" is notated in the same Gothic neumes on f. 184v. Fol. i-ii are also arranged but not written in 2 cols. At the top of f. ii are the words "plbanus in Amstadt".
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