A pair of flyleaves removed from the parent volume MS. 3.16A (this contains a short chronicle which ends on f. 22 at the year 1264). The book contains prayers, meditations, and other edificatory works in the main. The reference on p. 2 of the main codex shows that OWC belonged to Reading Abbey, and in fact it contains three-part conductus of the type found in another Reading MS: OBo 257. In the 18th century MS 3.16A was owned by Ralph, Earl Verney (1752-1791).

parent codex is bound in red morocco over pulp boards; there is some gilt tooling

Notre Dame-type notation

4 groups of 14-16 red stave-lines per page.

1-2v

MS 3.16A is paginated at t.r.r. (also t.l.v. at beginning) in brown ink in a hand of the same date as the binding, namely 18th century, OWC bears a modern pencil foliation at t.r.r.

Gothic script and ornamented with red-blue initials (corpus)

The index, which is in the same hand as the chronicle, goes up to the year 1281.

Parchment

RISM B/IV 1: A pair of parchment flyleaves meas. 213 x 175 ram. and dating from the second half of the 13th century. They have been removed from the parent volume, ms. 3.16A, which contains among other things a short chronicle which ends on f. 22 at the year 1264. The index, which is in the same hand as the chronicle, goes up to the year 1281. The book contains prayers, meditations, and other edificatory works in the main. The corpus is written in Gothic script and ornamented with red-blue initials. While ms 3.16A is paginated at t.r.r. (also t.l.v. at beginning) in brown ink in a hand of the same date as the binding, namely 18th century, OWC bears a modern pencil foliation at t.r.r. The parent codex is bound in red morocco over pulp boards; there is some gilt tooling. The reference on p. 2 of the main codex shows that OWC belonged to Reading Abbey, and in fact it contains three-part conductus of the type found in another Reading ms: OBo 257. In the 18th century ms 3.16A was owned by Ralph, Earl Verney (1752-1791). The notation of OWC is of Notre Dame type in 4 groups of 14-16 red stave-lines per page.

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