Masses and devotions of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; only ff. 1 and 246 have music. These two folios once served as flyleaves, and may have been part of the same page. Different scribes copied the two pieces; the hand of the textless piece seems later. Copied in England (Canterbury?).

New covers of brown leather over pasteboard with gilt on spine.

1st piece in black notation with no mimims, second piece in black notation with some minims, semi-minims and hollow notes (15c hand)

Early 15th century (RISM); the book itself dates from the late 15th or early 16th century

red staves

New pencil foliation

1 & 246 (r+v) (RISM gives f.245)

Parchment

RISM B/IV 2: A 15th or early 16th century paper manuscript meas. 161 x 107 mm. and containing 245 folios. The main contents are prayers with rubrics and initials in red. The two musical fragments are included in the main foliation, which is in modern pencil at t.r.r. It would appear that the two fragments are the upper and lower part of one and the same page, with a strip missing in the middle. The 14th century music written in three-part score on red five-line staves contains no minims, but a later scribe added a second piece, still in black notation but with a few minims, semiminims and hollow notes, in an early 15th century hand. The binding is of medium brown leather over pulp boards, with gilt on the spine.

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1 motet (incomplete), 1 textless piece = 2

Anonymous

246 paper folios, 160 x 110. New pencil foliation. New covers of brown leather over pasteboard with gilt on spine. Black mensural notation on red staves. Different scribes copied the two pieces; the hand of the textless piece seems later. Small red initials. The book contains Masses and devotions of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; only ff. 1 and 246 have music. These two folios once served as flyleaves, and may have been part of the same page.

Early 15th century (RISM); the book itself dates from the late 15th or early 16th century. Copied in England (Canterbury?).