A volume of miscellaneous papers, including the following with music:

a) 1 paper fragment (= f. 70 in composite volume), attached backwards to modern mounting sheet. Verso contains discantus for 'All thof I kan no fare make'; recto contains tenor and contratenor for 'O verre rotte,' copied by a single scribe, Another scribe later added several textless voice parts, one with incipit 'Mari.'

(b) 1 parchment fragment, unnumbered and unbound. Recto contains discantus of 'Adoro te Domine,'; verso is blank.

(c) 1 parchment fragment, unnumbered and unbound. Recto contains several short textless fragments (ornamental cadences), copied by a single scribe; verso is blank.

Copied in England. Placed on permanent loan at the British Museum between 1947 and 1967 by Sir William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1893-1977), 7th Duke of Portland. Accepted by the UK Government in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in March 1986 and allocated to the British Library in May 1987.

bound in modern covers of brown leather and cloth on wooden boards.

black void mensural notation with red black void coloration

new pencil foliation

79r, 80r+v, 81r+v

(a) Painted Gothic initials in red and blue; )b) large inked calligraphic initial;

Parchment/Paper

Miscellaneous papers, with polyphony:

1 motet, 2 English secular pieces, several textless fragments

Anonymous

A volume of miscellaneous papers, with new pencil foliation, bound in modern covers of brown leather and cloth on wooden boards. The following items with music are included:

(a) 1 paper fragment, ca. 265 x 172 (= f. 70 in composite volume), attached backwards to modern mounting sheet. Verso contains discantus for "All thof I kan no fare make"; recto contains tenor and contratenor for "O verre rotte," copied by a single scribe, in white mensural notation with red void coloration. Another scribe later added several textless voice parts, one with incipit "Mari." Painted Gothic initials in red and blue.

(b) 1 parchment fragment, ca. 238 x 345, unnumbered and unbound. Recto contains discantus of "Adoro te Domine," with large inked calligraphic initial; verso is blank.

(c) 1 parchment fragment, ca. 215 x 259, unnumbered and unbound. Recto contains several short textless fragments (ornamental cadences), copied by a single scribe; verso is blank.

Late 15th century (fragment "a"); early 16th century (fragment "b"); early 15th century (fragment "c"). Copied in England. Placed on permanent loan at British Museum in 1947 by Sir William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1893-1977), 7th Duke of Portland.