Unstemmed semibreves with dot of division, used melismatically and syllabically.

fragments 1-7, r+v. Note that Wathey's numbering in the RISM description, below, differs from that of the images on DIAMM. The order of the seven images (reflecting their order in the RISM numbering) is: 6, 1, 3, 7, 2, 5 and 4. Wathey's folio A is comprised of fragments 6v, 1 and 3, folio Av of fragments 1v, 6 and 3v, and folio B of fragments 7, 2 and 5. The blank folio Bv is comprised of 7v, 5v and 2v. It is fairly certain that these latter three fragments all belong to the same folio – all three have a blank side and the custos at the end of frag 7 corresponds to the note at the start of frag 2.

Parchment

RISM Supplement: Seven small parchment fragments: frags. 1-3 cut from one leaf (fol. A below), and frags. 5 - 6 from another (fol. B); frag. 4 may also be part of fol. B; frag. 7 is illegible. Further fragments remain embedded in the spine of MS Bodley 271. None now larger than 60 x 85 mm. Ruling: red five-line staves (12-14 mm); frame-rules (?), and ruled two-stave indentations (12 mm) for initials. Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata; one or possibly two hands. Notation: unstemmed semibreves, with dot of division, used melismatically in 1, 3, 4 and 5; used syllabically in 2. Decoration: two-stave plain initials to 1 and 3 in red and blue, flourished in blue and red.

Written in England. Used in the spine of MS Bodley 271 (where four further strips remain) to protect the quire-backs. Fols. 1-166 of this manuscript, written in England s. xii 1/2, are a copy of the works of Anselm of Canterbury recorded in Prior Eastry's catalogue (s. xiv 1/4) of the library at Canterbury (Lbl, Cotton MS Galba E. iv, fol. 124v; James, p. 23, No. 62). The shelfmark 'Distinctio ij, Gradus viij' (twice), and 'prima monstratione', are written on fol. i. The remainder of the manuscript (fols. 167-238), containing further works of Anselm, was copied s. xv med. The whole volume appears in a list made in 1508 of 'reparaciones facte circa libros qui continentur in libraria supra capellam domini prioris videlicet in 1e new byndyng and bordyng cum cooportoriis and 1e claspyng and chenyng ...' (CA, Lit. MS C. 11, fol. 98; James, p. 157, No. 144) as 'Opuscula Anselmi maiora'. This title is also written on the back cover of the book in a s. xv hand. The present binding, of brown leather over oak boards, blindstamped with a simple diamond pattern (also found on CA, MS RE 6, 0b, MSS Bodley 214 and Bodley 379, and Ouc, MS 68) and a running dog design, was probably made at Canterbury, c. 1450-1480 (see Gibson). Several bindings related to this group were executed by the Canterbury binder John Kemsyn, active 1485-1496. Some red stave-lines are offset on fol. i, possibly from a bifolium from the motet book used as a flyleaf. Owned: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Colfe; given by them 1616.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1 Fragments of Tr and T only; ed. PMFC 1, pp. 5-7, No. 4. Also in B-Br, MS MS 19606, No. 2; F-Pn, MS français 146, fol. 1v. 2 - 5 Fragmentary; 4 may be part of 5. Fol. Bv, and the verso of fragment 4, have blank staves only.

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