A reconstruction, following Fallows 'Drexel fragments', of fragments preserved as:

• GB-Cfm MU MS 1005 ('Cambs')
• GB-Ob MS. Mus. d. 103 ('Oxf')
• GB-W X4/34/3 (or D2.19) ('Wells')
• US-CLwr Spec.Coll. 3 Lge/ML431.D24 ('Cleve')
• flyleaves in US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4180-4185 ('D.4180-85')

The 'A' leaves come from a choirbook-format manuscript; all the other leaves (B-H) come from partbooks. Despite a variety of scribal hands, on internal evidence FallDrex suggests that all the leaves B-H may have come from a 3-partbook set (Discantus, Tenor, Bassus), though Fallows does not press this conclusion. For the purposes of this reconstruction all the Discantus fragments are assumed to come from a single partbook.

This reconstruction therefore presents parts of 4 books:

• a choirbook-format manuscript ('A' fragments). Note that at least 2 folios are missing between A1-5 and A6-8.
• a Discantus partbook ('B', 'C', 'E', 'F', 'H' fragments)
• a Tenor partbook ('G' fragments)
• a Bassus partbook ('D' fragments)

Several of the Drexel flyleaves have recto/verso reversed in Fallows' reconstruction of their order. The rectos & versos of the following leaves are therefore reversed in this reconstruction:

• D.4180 rear
• D.4181 rear
• D.4183 front
• D.4184 rear
• D.4185 rear

All the leaves have been cut down, either for re-use as bindings or (possibly) to tidy them for presentation (FallDrex on the Cambridge fragment). The 'A' fragments are each half a page of a choirbook-format manuscript; the remaining fragments are each the remains of a page of a partbook.

black void mensural

'A' leaves: staves c.18mm, 9-10 staves per page. Other leaves: staves c. 17mm, 7 staves per page (though usually only 6 remain). The 'E' fragments have slightly larger staves.

Pages from a number of manuscripts are used in this reconstruction. Full information, bibliography, etc is provided in the entries on those sources.