Written space 157 mm wide; frame rules (verticals only), text guides and a ruled indentation (10 mm) for initials. Used to form the front pastedown of MS 57, a copy of Bede on the Acts of the Apostles, 15th of 16th century. Copied from an exemplar at Christ Church Canterbury (fol. 61v 'Explicit liber venerabilis BEDE presbiteri super actis apostolorum. Originale istius operis est in libraria ecclesia christi Cantuar'), by the scribe of Onc, MS 42. Both books were owned by William Warham, Fellow of New College 1475-1488, Archbishop of Canterbury 1504-1532, and both have blind-stamped bindings, executed at Canterbury, of tanned leather over oak boards. The arms of Christ Church Canterbury are added on fol. 5 of MS 57, and Christ Church may also be the origin of fol. i. Rebacked s. xix/xx; a single clasp. Given probably between 1508 and the Archbishop's death in 1532.

unstemmed semibreves with dot of division, used melismatically; mensuration signs and a signum rotundum used as a signum congruentiae in 2

at least eleven freely-ruled red five-line staves (17-19 mm)

unfoliated

front board offset, 1 r+v (in Bodley)

undistinguished gothica textualis semi-quadrata script; two-line blue initials flourished in red; paraph in red to indicate beginning of T of 1.

Parchment

RISM Supplement: 1 fol. (unfoliated). Parchment. Now c. 275 x 195 mm; originally probably c. 320 mm high. Written space 157 mm wide. Ruling: at least eleven freely-ruled red five-line staves (17-19 mm); frame rules (verticals only), text guides and a ruled indentation (10 mm) for initials. Script: undistinguished gothica textualis semi-quadrata. Notation: unstemmed semibreves, with dot of division, used melismatically; mensuration signs, and a signum rotundum used as a signum congruentiae in 2. Decoration: two-line blue initials flourished in red; paraph in red to indicate beginning of T of 1.

Written in England. Used to form the front pastedown of MS 57, a copy of Bede on the Acts of the Apostles, s. xv/xvi. This manuscript was copied from an exemplar at Christ Church Canterbury (fol. 61v 'Explicit liber venerabilis BEDE presbiteri super actis apostolorum. Originale istius operis est in libraria ecclesia christi Cantuar'), by the scribe of Onc, MS 42. Both books were owned by William Warham, Fellow of New College 1475-1488, Archbishop of Canterbury 1504-1532, and both have blind-stamped bindings, executed at Canterbury, of tanned leather over oak boards. The arms of Christ Church Canterbury are added on fol. 5 of MS 57, and Christ Church may also be the origin of fol. i. Rebacked s. xix/xx; a single clasp. Given probably between 1508 and the Archbishop's death in 1532.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1-2 Both items probably two of four voices. 1 Partial ed. Wibberley, pp. 185-189. On St Bartholomew. 2 On the Holy Cross.

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