Priory register, with polyphony on back endpaper, apparently the only surviving remnant of a choirbook. Copied by a single scribe, although some musical scribbles at bottom of f. 220 have been added by later hand. Probably copied at Augustinian priory in Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire (BowersNS). Folio with music later removed from original context and used as pastedown in register of William Cheryton, Prior of Lanthony 1377-1401. Owned by Porter family, of Lanthony; Scudamore and Fitzroy-Scudamore families, of Holme Lacy; and Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1820). Passed to Public Record Office, London, in mid 19th century.

Original covers of white leather over wooden boards

black void mensural notation with red void coloration

Ca. 1425-50 (BowersNS).

Staff height 15.5

Modern pencil foliation, 1-220

Decorative Gothic initials in red and brown.

Parchment

Priory register, with polyphony:

2 Glorias (both incomplete).

Anonymous

220 parchment folios, 297 x 220; f. 220 [= back endpaper] trimmed from larger original size. Modern pencil foliation, 1-220. Original covers of white leather over wooden boards. Music found on back endpaper, apparently the only surviving remnant of a choirbook. Black void mensural notation with red void coloration. Copied by a single scribe, except for musical scribbles at bottom of f. 220 added by later hand. Staff height 15.5. Decorative Gothic initials in red and brown.

Ca. 1425-50 (BowersNS). Probably copied at Augustinian priory in Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire (BowersNS). Folio with music later removed from original context and used as pastedown in register of William Cheryton, Prior of Lanthony 1377-1401. Owned by Porter family, of Lanthony; Scudamore and Fitzroy-Scudamore families, of Holme Lacy; and Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1820). Passed to Public Record Office, London, in mid 19th century.