A strip cut from the bottom of a bifolium. Written space 109 mm wide; frame rules and text guides. Written in England (?). Used as a strip to protect the end quire in an unidentified book, possibly in the University Library, Aberdeen (another fragment in MS 2379, from a probably 13th century antiphoner containing the Proper of the Saints for January, may have been used in the same book) There are some. probably 16th century scribbles and pen-trials on fols. Av-Br, 'Cantate domino', 'Comp- ... trois [...] receu a maistre', 'Tong' (twice). MS 2379, formerly the contents of a tin box also containing the papers of E E. Eeles, was assembled in part from binding fragments from books in Aberdeen University Library.

None; but there are traces of a reverse-calf binding (s. xvi?) visible on fols. A, Bv.

Notre-Dame

five-line red freely-ruled staves; 7-8 mm

unfoliated, but here designated A and B

A, Bv

capitals in text in red and blue; line separating staves, and ornament separating syllables, on fol. Av in green. Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata. There is a rough drawing of a hand with six fingers on fol. Bv.

Parchment

Assembled from binding fragments. Scribbles and pentrials (s. xvi) on Av-Br

RISM Supplement: 2 fols, (fragmentary; unfoliated, but here designated A and B). Parchment. Now c. 53 x 260 mm. Written space 109 mm wide. Ruling: five-line red freely-ruled staves (7-8 mm); frame rules and text guides. Collation: a strip cut from the bottom of a bifolium. Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata. Notation: Notre-Dame. Decoration: capitals in text in red and blue; line separating staves, and ornament separating syllables, on fol. Av in green.

Written in England (?). Used as a strip to protect the end quire in an unidentified book, possibly in the University Library, Aberdeen; another fragment in MS 2379, from an antiphoner, s. xiii med., containing the Proper of the Saints for January, may have been used in the same book. Scribbles and pen-trials, s. xvi, on fols. Av-Br, 'Cantate domino', 'Comp- ... trois [...] receu a maistre', 'Tong' (twice); a rough drawing of a hand with six fingers appears on fol. Bv. Traces of a reverse-calf binding (s. xvi?) are visible on fols. A, Bv. MS 2379, formerly the contents of a tin box also containing the papers of E E. Eeles, was assembled in part from binding fragments from books in Aberdeen University Library.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1-3 Fragmentary. 1 Part of a motet T; ed. Chew, p. 336. 2 Ed. Chew, pp. 333-336, and Tischler, II, pp. 1484-1498. Also in W1, fols. 41-42; F, fols. 140v-141. 3 Surviving voice carries Vatican Kyrie IV. Folio Bv is blank.

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