Collection of religious texts, translations and English poems, with five polyphonic pieces are copied on the last two folios. Copied by two scribes. Copied in England.

Modern covers of leather and mottled paper over boards (either wood or pulp). Black leather spine (dated 1958) has the words 'Alyanore || Hull, & c.', in gilt.

Black mensural notation. Ars nova notation

ca. 1350 (DaveyH).

3 red five-line staves per page

246-247v

New pencil foliation at t.r.r.

Red initials in the main corpus and in the music text

paper and parchment (mainly paper but a parchment bifolio begins each fascicle)

RISM B/IV 2: A 15th century manuscript meas. 271 x 190 mm. and containing 247 folios +1 blank unnumbered paper flyleaf at each end belonging to the modern binding of dark brown half-leather and mottled paper over boards (these may be wood, but, since they cannot be seen, there is a possibility they are of pulp). The binding is dated 1958; it has a gilt title on the spine: "Alyanore || Hull, & c.". There is a modern pencil foliation at t.r.r. This codex is mainly a paper one, but a parchment bifolio begins each fascicle. The contents, which are written in English, consist principally of "The VII Psalmes the wheche Dame Alyanore Hull translatted out of Frensche in to Englesche" (f. 2-147), "Meditacyons upon the VII dayes of the woke", again translated by A. Hull (f. 148-179v), and poems by J. Lidgate (f. 194-214v). Initials are red-blue in the corpus. The 2 music folios at the end are notated by 2 different hands: (a) a neat Ars Nova notation in 3 accolades of 3 red five-line staves per page with red initials; (b) the staves remain the same, but there are no red initials, while the Ars Nova notation is in a rougher hand with rectangles replacing squares.

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1 Magnificat, 4 motets = 5

Rychard-2, anon-3

i + 247 + i paper and parchment folios, 272 x 185. New pencil foliation. Modern covers of leather and paper, with black leather spine. Black mensural notation. Copied by two scribes. Red initials. The five polyphonic pieces are copied on the last two folios of this collection of religious texts, translations and English poems.

Early 15th century (RISM, FrereB); ca. 1350 (DaveyH). Copied in England.