A miscellany of epitaphs, hagiographical poems, moralising pieces, extracts from long works such as Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum, hymns, etc. Black or brown minuscule script; two folios are written in a very minute hand. The music on f. 1-4 v is from an octavo MS, in three-part score. The pages are set in sideways: much of the original can therefore be transcribed. From St. Mary's at Rufford in Nottinghamshire, a Cistercian Abbey.

brown leather with gilt tooling, with the Cotton arms on the front and back cover; 18th century

English ars nova type (with characteristic ascending oblique ligature)

red five-line staves

1-4v

ink foliation at t.r.r.; contemporary with the binding.

red initials (corpus); .some green letters and blue initials at the end

Parchment

RISM B/IV 2: A mainly 13th century vellum manuscript meas. 162 x 102 mm. and containing 158 folios + 4 blank unnumbered paper flyleaves at each end. The codex comes from St. Mary's at Rufford in Nottinghamshire, a Cistercian Abbey. It is bound in 18th century brown leather with gilt tooling and the Cotton arms on the front and back cover. The ink foliation at t.r.r. is contemporary with the binding. The contents of the miscellany consist of epitaphs, hagiographical poems, moralising pieces, extracts from long works such as Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum, hymns, etc. The black or brown minuscule script of the corpus employs red initials. At the end are some green letters and blue initials, and two folios are written in a very minute hand. The music on f. 1-4 v is from an octavo ms and is in English notation of Ars Nova type on red five-line staves in three-part score. Since the pages are set in sideways, much of the original can be transcribed. The ascending oblique ligature may be noted as a characteristic English trait.

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