Main corpus contains miscellaneous medical, grammatical, and theological notes; music found only on former wrapper (parchment bifolio, 285 x 400, folded to form 2 folios, new ff. 222-223), apparently the only surviving remnant of a 15th-century music manuscript containing Kyries and votive antiphons. Music on ff. 222'-223' copied by one or two scribes; canticle on f. 222 is later addition, probably copied by Richard Frevylle. Of English origin; music perhaps copied in Cambridgeshire or East Anglia, non-musical portions copied in Cambridge. The compiler and original owner was John Smith, a Cambridge physician. Acquired (possibly c. 1755) by Lincoln College, Oxford; presently deposited in Bodleian Library.

Portions of inner margins of both music folios now missing.

Rebound in new covers of dark red cloth on cardboard.

black full mensural notation with black full red and black full black void coloration, Canticle in black void mensural notation

222-223v

Original ink foliation, 3-195; modern pencil foliation, 196-223.

Initial and text for motet decorated in red.

ii paper folios + 193 paper folios + 2 parchment folios + 24 paper folios or scraps of folios recovered from former binding + 2 parchment folios [former wrapper] + ii paper

Commonplace book of John Smith, with polyphony on former wrapper:

1 Kyrie, 1 canticle (later addition), 1 motet = 3 (all fragmentary)

(Anglia)-1, Frevylle-1, anon-1

ii paper folios + 193 paper folios + 2 parchment folios + 24 paper folios or scraps of folios recovered from former binding + 2 parchment folios [former wrapper] + ii paper folios, 196 x 145 (parchment wrapper larger; see below). Original ink foliation, 3-195; modern pencil foliation, 196-223. Rebound in new covers of dark red cloth on cardboard.

Main body of manuscript contains miscellaneous medical, grammatical, and theological notes; music found only on former wrapper (parchment bifolio, 285 x 400, folded to form 2 folios, 285 x 200; = new ff. 222-223), apparently the only surviving remnant of a 15th-century music manuscript containing Kyries and votive antiphons (original folio size probably ca. 290 x 215). Portions of inner margins of both folios now missing. Music on ff. 222'-223' copied by one or two scribes, in black mensural notation with full red and black void coloration (motet in score format, Kyrie in choirbook format); canticle on f. 222 is later addition in white mensural notation, probably copied by Richard Frevylle. Initial and text for motet decorated in red.

Ca. 1450-70, with addition in early 16th century; non-musical contents date from 1581-1603 (WathN). Of English origin; music perhaps copied in Cambridgeshire or East Anglia, non-musical portions copied in Cambridge. The compiler and original owner was John Smith, a Cambridge physician. Acquired (possibly ca. 1755) by Lincoln College, Oxford; presently deposited in Bodleian Library.