1. English ars nova notation; 2. cut circle with signum rotundum; 3. English ternary breve-semibreve.

16mm red

1-2v

Parchment

RISM Supplement: 2 fols. (fragmentary; formed from one part-leaf and twelve strips marked A, C, D, F, G, I, K, L, M centre, N, IN, FR). Parchment. Now c. 280 x 210 mm (leaf) and c. 210 x c. 25 mm (strips); leaves originally at least 370 x c. 235 mm. Written space c. 305 x 191-195 mm. Ruling: thirteen freely-ruled red five-line staves, (15-18 mm); frame-rules with double verticals, text guides, and ruled indentations (c. 18 mm) for two-stave initials at the head of each page. Collation: a bifolium from the centre of a gathering, possibly from the beginning of an alphabetically arranged motet book. Script: a good gothica textualis formata. Notation: English Ars nova in 1; circle-stem, with signum rotundum in 2; English ternary breve-semibreve in 3. The underlay of 2 is possibly corrected on fol. 2. Decoration: cues entered for major initials (not supplied); flourished pen-work capitals at the beginning of the text (fols. Iv, 2), and penwork faces sketched in red on blank staves (fol. 2).

Written in England. Used to form the quire-guards and the two rear flyleaves (formerly fols. 233-234) of MS 52, a copy on paper and parchment of Odo of Cheriton, Sermones super Evangelia Dominicales, s. xv 1/2. Three other flyleaves (formerly fols. 1, 231-232) were drawn from an English Collectar, s. xii in.; one quire guard was cut from the head of a leaf from a manuscript of English verse in an Anglicana hand, s. xiv ex. The present binding incorporates medieval wooden boards, probably contemporary with the manuscript (cf. the clasp marks and grooves for sewing-bands); the book was re-backed s. xix and re-bound in 1977, when the music fragments were removed and reconstructed as fols. 1-2. Strip G, which supplies some note-stems for the opening of the triplum of 2, was omitted from the description and facsimile (p. 140) in Rankin. "Jhe ... -morda jocundo' written at foot of fol. 2, s. xvi. Owned: Lincoln Cathedral by c. 1675; 'D. 30' in Wren's catalogue of the Cathedral's books (LI, MS 250).

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1 Two voices of four; end lost. 2 End of top voice lost; ed. Rankin, pp. 144-148; T carries plainsong Alleluia V. Assumpta est Maria (GS, pi. 195). 3 Two (Mot and a T part) of probably four voices. On St Augustine.

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