Miscellany of sermons; short devotional tracts; lists and diagrams; prayers and verses (mostly Latin, a few in French), Latin song. Copied by several hands, with many gaps between texts. Some leaves have been tipped in: these pages are of varying sizes and and parchment quality. The only piece of polyphonic music is the well-known conductus Verifloris subfigura quem produxit, here in two parts only (for the incipit, see the lower two parts of W1 10). The music is written straight across f. 63 in score. It was added on an originally blank page, which seems to be coeval with the preceding page written in brown ink. The MS was in possession of Osney Abbey by the 15th century (letters from abbot added to final leaf).

dark brown morocco, 19th century. The 2 unnumbered paper folios belong to this binding

oblong notes: uses the ascending binary ligature whose first note is written as a duplex longa, the undulating body of which suggests an ornament such as a trill. Another unusual ligature is a descending binary ligature whose first note has the length of a duplex longa and is moreover surmounted by two dots.

red four-line staves with bar-lines

63

modern pencil foliation at t.r.r., includes two paper folios, but excludes two others

i + i paper + 160 parchment + i + i paper

RISM B/IV 1: A 13th and 14th century parchment manuscript meas. 207 x 150 mm. and containing 147 folios. In addition, there is 1 ribbed paper folio at the back; the similar folio at the front is included in the modern pencil foliation at t.r.r. 2 further unnumbered paper folios go with the late 19th century binding of dark brown morocco, which has gilt arms on the front cover. This miscellany of sermons and other theological items contains only one piece of polyphonic music, the well-known conductus Verifloris subfigura quem produxit, here in two parts only (for the incipit, see the lower two parts of W1 10). The music is written straight across f. 63 in score on red four-line staves with bar-lines and oblong notes like Burney 357, another British Museum ms. The black ink shows that this piece was added on an originally blank page, which however seems to be coeval with the preceding page written in brown ink. This is another source using the ascending binary ligature whose first note is written as a duplex longa, the undulating body of which suggests an ornament such as a trill. Another unusual ligature is a descending binary ligature whose first note has the length of a duplex longa and is moreover surmounted by two dots.

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