Originally belonged to Rawlinson C. 400, the Pontifical of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury (1315-1330). The 8 front leaves, written in an entirely different hand from the other 6, are set out with texts positioned to receive staves and musical notation which were never inserted. The pages without music are from a different manuscript: they form a continuous group of four leaves which were the middle of a gathering, and contain the texts to 6 organum-motets. The other 6 contain the music for 7 more organum-motets. The surviving compositions are fragmentary, though, with the exception of no. 6, their form can be traced throughout. Luther Dittmer thought that f. 1-4 come from one rotulus and f. 5-6 from another. The reverse of the second rotulus contains a Vita Sanctae Margarethae, which Dittmer connects with an office for St. Margaret composed by William of Winchecumbe. This composer was the author of 2 rotuli, one containing three-part works, during the four years he spent at Leominster. This prebendary of St. Andrew's church at Worcester had his name prefixed to the list of 37 Alleluias contained in LoHa.

now kept separately in a brown cloth folder

Gothica textualis semi-quadrata. English mensural notation with rhomboid breves

Red five-line staves )f. 1-4)

1-10v

the later 6 leaves are foliated at any suitable corner in pencil.

initials are black, sometimes with red ornament, or red. Those on fol. 5-6 are entirely in black ink.

Parchment

RISM B/IV 1: 8 parchment flyleaves meas. 192 x 150 mm. and 6 more, now meas. 140 x 125 mm., 155 x 135 mm., 165 x 96 mm., 140 x 92 mm., 108 x 156 mm. and 178 x 115 mm. These pages originally belonged to Rawlinson C. 400, the Pontifical of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury (1315-1330), but are now kept separately in a brown cloth folder. The 8 front leaves, written in an entirely different hand from the other 6, are set out with texts positioned to receive staves and musical notation which were never inserted. All the leaves date from c. 1300, but the pages without music are from a different manuscript. They form a continuous group of four leaves which were the middle of a gathering, and contain the texts to 6 organum-motets. The other 6 fragments are more interesting, for they contain the music in English mensural notation for 7 more organum-motets. These leaves are foliated at any suitable corner in pencil. Red five-line staves are used for f. 1-4, while initials may be black, sometimes with red ornament, or red. Fol. 5-6 are entirely in black ink. The surviving compositions are certainly fragmentary, but, except for no. 6, their form can be traced throughout. Luther Dittmer claims that f. 1-4 come from one rotulus and f. 5-6 from another. The reverse of the second rotulus contains a Vita Sanctae Margarethae, which Dittmer is inclined to connect with an office for St. Margaret composed by William of Winchecumbe. Still more interesting is the record that this composer was the author of 2 rotuli, one containing three-part works, during the four years he spent at Leominster. This prebendary of St. Andrew's church at Worcester had his name prefixed to the list of 37 Alleluias contained in LoHa. The compositions in the present source are closely akin to those in Wore, and it would be perhaps reasonable to connect William of Winchecumbe with them.

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