Script: gothica textualis quadrata, with some semi-quadrata elements. Notation: unstemmed semibreves, without dot of division, used melismatically; Franconian, with ornamental semibreves

Staff gauge 13.5

no foliation

r+v

parchment

LOST in 1990

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

RISM Supplement: 1 fol. (fragmentary). Parchment. Now c. 280 x 140 mm. Written space c. 225 mm high. Ruling: twelve freely-ruled red five-line staves (12.5-13.5 mm); text guides, and a ruled two-stave indentation for an initial 'Q' on the recto of the leaf. Script: gothica textualis quadrata, with some semi-quadrata elements. Notation: unstemmed semibreves, without dot of division, used melismatically. Decoration: T designations in red ink.

Written in England. Used in a tall stabbed binding (for a comparable case see C A, Add. MS 128/4), probably before 1540 (Ker, p. 312). Described by Ker as Add. MS 128/5. Last seen in 1981; now apparently lost. Photographic negatives of this source are kept by the Cathedral Library.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1,3-4 Two of four voices. 1 Text is the last three of nine stanzas of Bernardus doctor inclitus. On St Bernard. 2 Two of four voices; the two lost voices can be reconstructed by voice-exchange. On the Virgin. 3 and 4 are linked settings; the text, more often found as lam regina discubuit, is continuous between the two pieces. The T designations may thus refer to the first and second sections. On St Bernard.

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