A single folio, now part of a bundle of miscellaneous folios. The verso contains voices I and IV of a previously unknown four-part setting of the Song of Songs text Descendi in ortum meum which fits with voices II and III on the same text in BL Add 54324, f. 3 recto, with attribution to 'Dunstaple'. With light editorial completion, a version was given in Bent (dissertation) and published in Dunstable (MB 8), no. 73 (pp. 211-4). Probably copied in southeastern England, perhaps at Canterbury. Later incorporated into binding of will register of Consistory Court, Canterbury. Kept at Christ Church, Canterbury until 1857, then transferred to Kent County Record Office, where register received call number PRC 32/1.

stained and in poor condition; part of upper corner torn away, with loss of some music

Black mensural notation in score format

stretching apparent: 11.5-13 mm

r+v

One large inked initial.

Parchment

Currently held, with other Canterbury Diocesan papers, at Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone - full shelfmark there DCb/PRC/50/5.

RISM: 1 parchment bifolio originally c. 225 x 300, now serving as wrapper for legal document.

RISM B/IV 4: 15. Jh.; 1 Blatt Pergament, ca. 480 x 350 mm. Je Seite 11 (ursprünglich 12) Fünfliniensysteme mit schwarzer Mensuralnotation.

Das von D. Chadd aufgefundene, aus dem Einband des Canterbury Consistory Court Will Register Nr. 1 (PRC 32/1) herausgelöste und stark beschädigte Blatt enthält Fragmente zweier mehrstimmige Stücke.

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2 motets (incomplete)

(Dunstable)-1, anon-1

1 parchment folio, 285 x 260, now part of bundle of miscellaneous folios. Fragment stained and in poor condition; part of upper corner torn away, with loss of some music. Black mensural notation with black void coloration. One large inked initial.

First half of 15th century. Probably copied in southeastern England, perhaps at Canterbury. Later incorporated into binding of will register of Consistory Church, Canterbury. Kept at Christ Church, Canterbury until 1857, then transferred to Kent County Record Office, where register received call number PRC 32/1.

Folio with music subsequently removed from binding and included with PRC 49.