The fragments originally belonged to Rawlinson C. 400, the Pontifical of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury (1315-1330); they were removed in 1952 and have separate shelfmark C. 400*.

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. They form a continuous group of four leaves which were the middle of a gathering, and contain the texts to 6 organum-motets. The pages without music are from a different manuscript.

The other 6 leaves contain the music for 7 mostly polytextual 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 GB-Lbl Harley 978.

Desmond2020 suggests it is possible the main music scribe (verso of B 1-4, and recto of B 5-6) was W. de Wicumbe; and the secondary scribe Hugo de Wicumbe who texted the front of B 1-4 and wrote the text on the back of B 5-6. Hugo de Wicumbe was text author for the office of St Margaret mentioned above, possibly copied in part on the rear of the second rotulus. GB-Ob MS. Lat. liturg. b. 19 is another part of the second roll (DittmerE & Desmond2020), and fragment A 3v of this ms has an offset from f. 4r of the latter (combined image at Desmond2020 p.655).

now kept separately in a brown cloth folder

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

Red five-line staves (B. 1-4)

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

Foliated as A 1-4v, B 1-6v by the Bodleian; as 1-10v by EECM. Also paginated 1-20 in RISM supplement.

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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RISM Supplement: Three fragments of a roll (foliated Lat. liturg. b. 19, fol. 4, and Rawl. C. 400*, fols. 5a, 6a). Parchment. At least 588 x 170 mm (306 x 170; 108 x 165; 178 x 115). Written space 165 mm wide. Ruling: at least 34 freely-ruled brown five-line staves (11-13 mm); frame rule at the bottom only (fol. 6a) of the face of the roll. Script: distinctive gothica textualis semi-quadrata, also found in Rawl. C. 400*, pp. 1-8, fols. 1-4 (versos only). Main medial pauses in the text are indicated by the punctus elevatus; all other pauses in text are indicated by a punctus. Notation: English mensural with rhomboid breves. Decoration: plain brown initials. Written in England, not after A.D. 1256. The dorse of the roll was later used to write: (1) Notes on the Salomite controversy of the Trinubium of St Anne with genealogical charts (later erased), a draft office of St Margaret, and miscellaneous liturgical notes and quotations. (2) [fols. 5av-6av] An Assize of Grain, drawn up in 1248, which was copied later than and over (1). (3) [fol. 4v] An account of grain, possibly for a household, purchased at Reading and Wokingham between December and June, ending at the feast of St John the Baptist, probably in 1256 and 1257. The succession of saints' days and festivals used for dating shows that, in the year of the account, the morrow of St Scholastica (11 February) was a Sunday, that the feast of St Gregory (12 March) fell on a Monday (the year, therefore, was not a Leap Year), and that Pentecost fell between the Sundays after St Dunstan and before St Barnabas, that is, on either 27 May or 3 June. The second of these days is unlikely, since Trinity Sunday would then fall on 10 June, which is cited in the account merely as the feast of St Barnabas; if Pentecost fell on 27 May, Easter Day fell on 8 April. Possible years for the end of the account, therefore, are 1246, 1257 or 1319. The last of these is too late for the script and contents of the document; since the compilation of the 1248 Assize of Grain probably predates the account, 1257 remains its most likely year. Among the dates cited in the account is that of the dedication of a church, between 2 and 5 May. Items (1)-(3) were all written after the music on the face of the roll, as made clear by holes in the parchment, which perforate the work of the music scribe but which were avoided by the scribes who wrote on the dorse. The music must, therefore, have been copied before the commencement of the account, which can be dated December 1256 at the latest. Used with Rawl. C. 400*, pp. 1-8, fols, la-4a in the binding (s. xiv in.?) of the Pontifical of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 (MS Rawl. C.400 [S.C. 12254]), probably to pad the cover (cf. the offsets of MS Lat. liturg. b. 19, fol. 4r on MS Rawl. C. 400*, pp. 3, 6). The pontifical was bequeathed to Salisbury Cathedral at Martival's death (fol. 1), and appears in the catalogue of the Cathedral's books made c. 1622 by Patrick Young (Sc, MS 225; see Ker, p. 195). Owned: Richard Rawlinson (d. 1755). Bequeathed c. 1756 to the Bodleian Library. The fragments were removed from the binding as follows: (1) fol. 4 by W. D. Macray, s. xix ex., who placed it with other liturgical fragments from Rawlinson manuscripts in the guard book, now MS Lat. liturg. b. 19; (2) fols. 5a, 6a by the Bodleian Library, April 1952, to form, with other fragments, MS Rawl. C. 400* (see RISM, B IV, 1). MS Lat. liturg. b. 19 owned by W. D. Macray; Sir Michael Sadler, Master of University College, Oxford (bought at the Macray Sale, Oxford, December 1923); F. W. Bond (bought at Sotheby's, 29 March 1944, lot 887). Bought by the Bodleian Library at Sotheby's, 22 June 1982, lot 26.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1 Second section begins Mira federa, which appears among the 'Moteti cum duplici littera' in the Harley Index (Lbl, Harley MS 978, fol. 161). 2 Some losses of music and text in Mot; opening of T, in score beneath Mot, lost. Incomplete ed. in Dittmer, pp. 55-58.

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