The principal contents are De vita dulcissime Virginis Marie et de gestis Ihesu, a Latin poem in rhyming verse of which nearly all book I is lost. The polyphony appears on f. 85 v, in score. There is only one incomplete composition, namely lube, domine, silentium fieri. Primo tempore alleviata est, part of the second lesson at Matins on the Monday after the third Sunday in Advent. The codex was sold at the Buxheim sale in Munich in September, 1883 and bought for Oxford in 1884. The Buxheim shelf-mark is N. 201.

Fol. i and 88 belong to the modern binding; f. ii-iii and 86-87 belonged to the older one. The new binding dates from 1885, and is of dark blue three-quarter leather and black cloth over hard boards (probably of thick pulp). The old binding has been misplaced, but was made of parchment and paper.

Gothic neumes

2 brown five-line staves with occasional bar-lines.

Modern pencil foliation dating from 1885 appears at t.r.r.

85v

iii paper + 88 parchment

RISM B/IV 2: A parchment manuscript of the second half of the 14th century meas. 207 x 150 mm. and containing iii + 88 folios of which the first and last three are paper flyleaves. Fol. i and 88 belong to the modern binding, while f. ii-iii and 86-87 were for the older one. The new binding, which dates from 1885, is of dark blue three-quarter leather and black cloth over hard boards (probably thick pulp ones). The old binding has been misplaced, but was made of parchment and paper. The codex was sold at the Buxheim sale in Munich in September, 1883 and bought for Oxford in 1884. The Buxheim shelf-mark is N. 201. There is no old foliation, but a modern pencil one dating from 1885 appears at t.r.r. The principal contents of the source are De vita dulcissime Virginis Marie et de gestis Ihesu, a Latin poem in rhyming verse of which nearly all book I is lost. The polyphony appears on f. 85 v in 14th century Gothic neumes on 2 brown five-line staves in score with occasional bar-lines. There is only one incomplete composition, namely lube, domine, silentium fieri. Primo tempore alleviata est, part of the second lesson at Matins on the Monday after the third Sunday in Advent.

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