An offset on the back board from a single leaf, now lost. Written space 271 x at least 185 mm. Written presumably in England. Manuscript leaf, now lost, used as rear paste-down of MS Laud. misc. 594, a collection of pamphlets and fragments of larger compilations containing astronomical works. Fols. 14-21 were written in 1434 by Richard Monke, a London chaplain (CDDM, p. 101). Reverse photographs of the offsets are now 0b, MS Facs. c. 42, fols. 63-64. Two booklets included in the manuscript (fols. 22-40; fols. 136-141) were owned by Mag. Robert Godefroy, who was admitted at Paris, as a member of the Norman nation, to the degree of M.A. in 1403, and who, as rector of Neufmarché (Seine-Maritime), was admitted B.Th. in 1422 (A. Châtelain and H. Denifle, Chartularium universitatis Parisiensis ..., 4 vols. [Paris, 1889-1897], IV, pp. 96,108). Fols. 40v, 141v: 'Iste liber est magistri Roberti Godfredi Rothomagensis diòcesis', s. xv1/2. Owned: Roger Marshall, by 1477; Samuell Stallon (s. xvi ex.); William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury by 1633. Given 1635.

Verbal text is almost illegible, and other readings are tentative

red whittawed leather over boards, with corner-mitres and two clasps, may have been produced in Cambridge; mid-15th century

The offset on the front board, made by a pastedown now lost, preserves part of a registered copy of a papal letter concerning a presentation to a benefice

Unstemmed semibreves with dot of division, used syllabically

twelve freely-ruled red five-line staves (17 mm)

back board offset

ruled indentations (c. 15 mm) for two-stave initials at the openings of the upper voices; two-stave initials not supplied. The script is gothica textualis semi-quadrata

a list of contents (fol. 1) is in the hand of Roger Marshall, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1437-1477.

parchment

RISM Supplement: An offset on the back board from a single leaf, now lost. Offset now measures 320 x 210 mm. Written space 271 x at least 185 mm. Ruling: twelve freely-ruled red five-line staves (17 mm); ruled indentations (c. 15 mm) for two-stave initials at the openings of the upper voices. Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata. Notation: unstemmed semibreves, with dot of division, used syllabically. Decoration: two-stave initials not supplied.

Written presumably in England. Manuscript leaf, now lost, used as rear paste-down of MS Laud. misc. 594, a collection of pamphlets and fragments of larger compilations containing astronomical works. Fols. 14-21 were written in 1434 by Richard Monke, a London chaplain (CDDM, p. 101); a list of contents (fol. 1) is in the hand of Roger Marshall, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1437-1477. The binding, s. xv med., of red whittawed leather over boards, with corner-mitres and two clasps, may have been executed in Cambridge. The offset on the front board, made by a pastedown now lost, preserves part of a registered copy of a papal letter concerning a presentation to a benefice. Reverse photographs of the offsets are now 0b, MS Facs. c. 42, fols. 63-64. Two booklets included in the manuscript (fols. 22-40; fols. 136-141) were owned by Mag. Robert Godefroy, who was admitted at Paris, as a member of the Norman nation, to the degree of M.A. in 1403, and who, as rector of Neufmarché (Seine-Maritime), was admitted B.Th. in 1422 (A. Châtelain and H. Denifle, Chartularium universitatis Parisiensis ..., 4 vols. [Paris, 1889-1897], IV, pp. 96,108). Fols. 40v, 141v: 'Iste liber est magistri Roberti Godfredi Rothomagensis diòcesis', s. xv1/2. Owned: Roger Marshall, by 1477; Samuell Stallon (s. xvi ex.); William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury by 1633. Given 1635.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

back board, offset

Frondentibus florentibus

[Tenor. Floret]

(Mot and T incipits RISM, B IV, 2, p. 258, No. 6)

Verbal text is almost illegible, and other readings are tentative; ed. Bent, pp. 344-346, with reconstruction of Tr, found only in this source. Also in 0b, MS e Musaeo 7, fol. v.

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