A bifolium from the centre of a gathering. Written space 100 mm wide. Gothica humanistica in 2. Written in Italy. Fol. Ar copied separately and probably later than fols. Av - Bv. Used to strengthen the final quire and form the rear flyleaf of MS Canon. Ital. 16, a paper copy of Leonardo Bruni's Deprimo bello Punico in Italian, written in 1459 and signed by Hieronimus Crobatus (fol. 90v 'Liber féliciter explicit .vii.° kalendas Septembris 1459. [Greek text missing]). GB-Ob MS Lat. class. e. 17 (S. C. 32555), also formerly owned by Canonici, was written in 1453 at Conegliano (Veneto) by a 'Franciscus Crobatus venetus' (see CDDM, i, p. 88); MS Canon. Ital. 16 probably also originates from north-east Italy. All sides except fol. Av are erased; possibly fol. 97 was used in a previous binding. Owned: Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici, d. 1805; Giovanni Perissinotti, 1807. Bought 1817.

Contemporary binding of stamped leather over wooden boards, with ornamental bosses, and a brass clasp decorated with a cross and ' yhs'.

Italian Ars Nova with red black full coloration in 1; Ars nova with flagged and stemmed semibreves in 2

at least seven (five on fol. Ar) red five-line staves (14.5 mm, fol. A; 10.5 mm, fols. Av-B), ruled with a rastrum.

foliated 97 [97r here fols. Ar, Bv; 97v here fols. Av-Br]).

97 r+v

Parchment

RISM Supplement: 2 fols, (fragmentary; foliated 97 [97r here fols. Ar, Bv; 97v here fols. Av-Br]). Parchment. Now 143 x 214 mm; page originally 138 mm wide. Written space 100 mm wide. Ruling: at least seven (five on fol. Ar) red five-line staves (14.5 mm, fol. A; 10.5 mm, fols. Av-B), ruled with a rastrum. Collation: a bifolium from the centre of a gathering. Script: gothica humanistica in 2. Notation: Italian Ars nova with red full coloration in 1; Ars nova with flagged and stemmed semibreves in 2.

Written in Italy. Fol. Ar copied separately and probably later than fols. Av - Bv. Used to strengthen the final quire and form the rear flyleaf of MS Canon. Ital. 16, a paper copy of Leonardo Bruni's Deprimo bello Punico in Italian, written in 1459 and signed by Hieronimus Crobatus (fol. 90v 'Liber féliciter explicit .vii.° kalendas Septembris 1459. [Greek text missing]). Contemporary binding of stamped leather over wooden boards, with ornamental bosses, and a brass clasp decorated with a cross and ' yhs'. 0b, MS Lat. class. e. 17 (S. C. 32555), also formerly owned by Canonici, was written in 1453 at Conegliano (Veneto) by a 'Franciscus Crobatus venetus' (see CDDM, i, p. 88); MS Canon. Ital. 16 probably also originates from north-east Italy. All sides except fol. Av are erased; possibly fol. 97 was used in a previous binding. Owned: Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici, d. 1805; Giovanni Perissinotti, 1807. Bought 1817.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1. fol. A [No surviving text]

1 Probably two textless lower voices of a mass movement; a later addition. 2 Partial ed. in Bent, 'The Fourteenth-Century Italian Motet', pp. 120-121. On St Christina of Tyre-Bolseno; the second stave of the T is labelled 'Virgo Cripstina' [sic], presumably at the beginning of a section. Text of Mot includes '... et nobis prole tue ... nec omnia sunt equales ...'.

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