Folios 79 and 80 in the volume Recueil de fragments d'anciens manuscrits français (Collection of fragments from old French manuscripts) contain a significant fragment from a 14th century musical manuscript preserving large portions of four unique anonymous motets. Each contains the lower half of a parchment folio with black Ars Nova mensural notation (including red coloration). Music written in a combination of both 1- and 2-column formats.

79r: 3vv Latin motet with tenor on "Super omnes speciosa" (Marian antiphon "Ave Regina coelorum"), using the same color as Machaut M17. Only last part of the motetus and triplum parts are preserved.

79v: 4vv mixed French/Latin motet with isorhythmic tenor "Ave" (Ave Maria 4. Adv.) and contratenor (untexted) with periodic upper-voice structure. Lower voices are complete and text below them indicates mensuration for all voices. A substantial amount of the triplum is preserved – approximately two-thirds of it – but only the last part of the motetus is extant.

80r: 4vv French motet with an isomelic tenor "K(yrie)" (Kyrie Alme pater) and contratenor "Ad ortum" (Marian Responsory "Solem iusticie"). Only the last part of the triplum and one line of text of the motetus are preserved.

80v: 3vv French motet with tenor based on the Fauvel ballade “Ay! Amours.” Tenor voice is complete; only the last part of the motetus and triplum are preserved.

These fragments had been used as binding material for F-Pnm Latin 8421, which contains small additional fragments of these two folios.

Surface of parchment worn/damaged with some trimmed/torn edges, holes, abraded ink and later overwriting in places, but music and text are largely legible throughout.

Discovered and notified by Richard Dudas 14 March 2020