Sandon diagramms the configuration of the three strips into a rotulus and provides a proper inventory

Strips recovered from the cathedral library's MS Misc. A/cs, vol. 37 (a Journal of Accounts of Treasurers of the Priory for the years 1467-79). The strips were originally part of a single manuscript roll containing one of the voice parts for a series of pieces; this roll was probably one of a set of four rolls, each of which contained one of the other voice parts for the same series of pieces. Copied by two scribes. Probably copied at Canterbury Cathedral.

strips are part of a collection of miscellaneous leaves from various music manuscripts preserved under the call number 'Additional 128'; the leaves are kept loose in a large black box.

A 15th-century hand has written the name 'Symon Benet' ' on the verso side of strip #45.

Black full with black void semiminims and coloration

Two of the strips (ca. 385 x 140 and ca. 415 x 140, respectively) bear the pencil numbers '44' and '45,' added by a modern hand.

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Parchment

NB The CANT numbers (1-5) were allocated by Sandon in his 1976 ‘Fragments’ article. They do not correspond to a reference in the form ‘Add. Ms. 128/(CANT no.)’.

128/2 = not clear whether this was ever anything different

128/5 = CANT 2 (cannot currently be traced) – the current 128/5 is different from CANT contents

128/6 = CANT 3

128/7 = CANT 5 (reported as stolen in 1977) – current 128/7 has no music

128/8 - incorporates the former 128/71 = CANT 1

128/13 – now has no music (seems to have become 128/66)

128/62 = CANT 6

128/65 = CANT 4

128/66 – may be the one formerly 128/13

128/70 – no olim

128/71 – now incorporated into 128/8

CANT 1 = 128/8

CANT 2 = 128/5 (not the current 128/5 though)

CANT 3 = 128/6

CANT 4 = 128/65

CANT 5 = 128/7

CANT 6 = 128/62

Single voice parts for 5 motets

Anonymous

3 parchment strips, recovered from the cathedral library's MS Misc. A/cs, vol. 37 (a Journal of Accounts of Treasurers of the Priory for the years 1467-79). Two of the strips (ca. 385 x 140 and ca. 415 x 140, respectively) bear the pencil numbers "44" and "45," added by a modern hand. These two strips were removed from the Journal at an unknown date. In 1971 Roger Bowers examined the Journal and discovered the third strip (ca. 400 x 60), which was once part of what is now strip #44. It appears that the three strips were originally part of a single manuscript roll containing one of the voice parts for a series of pieces; this roll, in turn, was probably one of a set of four rolls, each of which contained one of the other voice parts for the same series of pieces. Black notation with black void semiminims and coloration. Copied by two scribes. A 15th-century hand has written the name "Symon Benet' ' on the verso side of strip #45. These three strips are part of a collection of miscellaneous leaves from various music manuscripts preserved under the call number "Additional 128"; the leaves are kept loose in a large black box.

Ca. 1450-70 (SandonF). Probably copied at Canterbury Cathedral.