Contains a calendar with obits of many abbots and benefactors of the monastery (f. 2-8), a Psalter (f. 25-145), prayers, responsories with musical notation (f. 149v-161v), the short treatise Modus psallendi in choro (f. 162-163), hymns with music (f. 166-206), tropes on Ave Maria in French and similar Marian invocations without the Ave Maria refrain (f. 233v-238). From the abbey of Lire in Normandy, which had close connections with England.

modern binding of dark brown morocco over wooden boards bears a gilt title on the spine; 3 unnumbered modern flyleaves each end go with the binding.

undifferentiated square notes with ligatures and conjuncturae. Occasional mensural features

10-line staves, with 11-line staves for no. 1 (polyphony)

166, 188v, 192

modern pencil foliation replaces the faulty modern ink foliation

Gothic script employing red-blue initials, sometimes ornamented with gold.

iii paper + 264 parchment + iii paper

Corrections to inventory and complete texts of items provided by Gillian Gower, UCLA, 2015

RISM B/IV 1: A parchment manuscript meas. 300 x 210 mm. dating from c. 1300 and containing 264 folios. A modern pencil foliation replaces the faulty modern ink foliation. Briefly the contents are a calendar with obits of many abbots and benefactors of the monastery (f. 2-8), a Psalter (f. 25-145) followed by prayers, responsories with musical notation (f. 149v-161v), the short treatise Modus psallendi in choro (f. 162-163), hymns with music (f. 166-206), tropes on Ave Maria in French and similar Marian invocations without the Ave Maria refrain (f. 233v-238). The codex originated in the abbey of Lire in Normandy, which had close connections with England. It is written in a Gothic script employing red-blue initials, sometimes ornamented with gold. The plainsong is on red four-line staves, while the 3 polyphonic hymns mainly make use of 10-line staves, though no. 1 begins with two 11-line staves. The notation is of undifferentiated square notes with ligatures and conjuncturas. Mensural features are hinted at occasionally. A modern binding of dark brown morocco over wooden boards bears a gilt title on the spine; 3 unnumbered modern flyleaves each end go with the binding.

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