Music on ff. 151-151', now serving as flyleaf. Three Magnificat fragments, copied by a single scribe; fourth fragment apparently a slightly later addition by another scribe. Copied in England.

New covers of brown leather on cardboard

black full mensural; black void mensural (later addition)

New pencil foliation, 1-152.

151r+v

i paper + v parchment + 152 parchment + i paper

RISM B/IV 2: An early 15th century parchment manuscript meas. 192 x 123 mm. and containing vi+152+i folios. The first and last leaf belong to the 17th century brown leather binding with pulp boards. Flyleaves f. v, vi and 150 are Dominican letters of Confraternity ornamented with blue-red initials or, in the case of f. 150, with gold. Fol. v dated 1371 is from the vicar-general of the Order at Northampton. The main treatise takes up f. 1-149 and is a rebuttal of the 12 heresies of the Lollards. It is written in a typical monastic minuscule of the period with blue-red initials for sub-paragraphs and gold and violet at the beginning as well. The music page is the second of a bifolio, of which the stub remains. The page is much cut down. The first 3 pieces are in Ars Nova notation with semiminims and joined-up c.o.p. ligatures. They must date from c. 1400, while the piece in white notation may be slightly later.

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Theological writings, with polyphony: 4 Magnificat fragments

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i paper + v parchment + 152 parchment + i paper folios, 187 x 127. New pencil foliation, 1-152. New covers of brown leather on cardboard. Music on ff. 151-151', now serving as flyleaf. Three Magnificat fragments in black mensural notation, copied by a single scribe; fourth fragment apparently a slightly later addition by another scribe, in white mensural notation. Some music obliterated by later trimming. No initials or decoration.

Early 15th century. Copied in England.