Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historie. The last folio is a musical flyleaf cut down from a double page and inserted sideways. The flyleaf must have been part of an important volume of music containing some 300 folios (the two pages are paginated 547, 548, 557 and 558), and bear 2 pieces with English text, one a conductus and the other a motet, then a French motet followed by some three-part clausulae written in separate parts. There are also some binding strips on f. 256v and 262-263. The first, according to Handschin, contains a fragment of the T of Mo 32, the second a very narrow strip of a motet voice ' … ce n'est mie de quer pur moy deporter kant lesser m'estut ma mie e'. At the bottom of f. 27 a few notes of another French piece have been preserved: 'ne quer de luy partir'. All these strips are very fragmentary. Mend to the bottom of f. 27 stuck down, so recto only.

the bottom stave to f.270 is cut away; the second page is also cut away vertically and is only 159 mm wide

modern, light brown, half leather binding dates from November 1956, and includes one extra unnumbered paper flyleaf at each end

mensural, with longs, breves, c.o.p. ligatures and single semibreves, but no minims

originally 12 red five-line staves per page

There is a disposition into books, with the number of each book in Roman numerals at t.m.r. and the abbreviation for Liber at t.m.v., but no old foliation. A modern pencil foliation appears at t.r.r. The single paper flyleaves at the front and back are unnumbered

27, 270 r+v, strips following 256v (verso only), and 262v (r+v)

written in a neat, small Gothic script in two columns. Initials are in red or blue with filigree in the contrasting colour.

i paper + 270 parchment + i paper

RISM B/IV 1: An early 14th century parchment manuscript meas. 429 x 288 mm. and containing 270 folios. The contents are Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historie written in a neat, small Gothic script in two columns. Initials are in red or blue with filigree in the contrasting colour. There is a disposition into books, with the number of each book in Roman numerals at t.m.r. and the abbreviation for Liber at t.m.v., but no old foliation. A modern pencil foliation appears at t.r.r. The modern, light brown, half leather binding dates from November 1956, and includes one extra unnumbered paper flyleaf at each end. The last folio of the ms, f. 270, is a musical flyleaf cut down from a double page and inserted sideways. A single page of the music measured originally c. 305 x 265 mm. The flyleaf must have been part of an important volume of music containing some 300 folios, since the two pages are paginated 547, 548, 557 and 558. The bottom stave is cut away, but there were originally 12 red five-line staves per page. The second page is, in addition, cut away vertically and hence only 159 mm wide. The date of the flyleaf and the colour of the initials are as for the corpus. The mensural notation employs longs, breves, c.o.p. ligatures and single semibreves, but no minims. The music is unusual, consisting of 2 pieces with English text, one a conductus and the other a motet, then a French motet followed by some three-part clausulae written in separate parts. In addition, there are some binding strips on f. 256v and 262-263. The first, according to Handschin, contains a fragment of the T of Mo 32, the second a very narrow strip of a motet voice ". . . ce n'est mie de quer pur moy deporter kant lesser m'estut ma mie e". At the bottom of f. 27 a few notes of another French piece have been preserved: "ne quer de luy partir". All these strips are very fragmentary. Mend to the bottom of f. 27 stuck down, so recto only.

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