Written in France. Used, in two strips (now reassembled) to bind St Andrews University Library, Typ. FP B33BC, a copy of Maturinus Cordier, De corrupti sermonis emendatione libellus in quosdam quasi communes locos digestus (Anthoine Bonnemère; Paris, 1533). Owned by 'Frater Radulphus de Beaux- ... conventus Noviomensis', 'Frater Michael Dedruentis', and 'Frater Ludovici Haller', sixteenth century (fol. 1); then owned by Mario Roques, until 1966. Purchased 12 September 1966 from Lucien Dorbon catalogue (25 August 1966), lot 703.

Rebound 1970 by Douglas Cotterell. Fragments now kept separately.

Plainsong notation, written in France

at least nine freely-ruled red five-line staves (height 7-8 mm), ruled in two columns, each 45 mm wide

r+v

unfoliated

Script is gothica textualis rotunda. Plain red initials elaborately flourished in blue; red text for upper voice.

Parchment

RISM Supplement: 1 fol. (fragmentary; unfoliated). Parchment. Now 165 x 124 mm. Written space 100 mm wide overall. Ruling: at least nine freely-ruled red five-line staves (7-8 mm), ruled in two columns, each 45 mm wide. Script: gothica textualis rotunda. Notation: plainsong symbols. Decoration: plain red initials elaborately flourished in blue; red text for upper voice.

Written in France. Used, in two strips (now reassembled) to bind St Andrews University Library, Typ. FP B33BC, a copy of Maturinus Cordier, De corrupti sermonis emendatione libellus in quosdam quasi communes locos digestus (Anthoine Bonnemère; Paris, 1533). Rebound 1970 by Douglas Cotterell. Fragments now kept separately. Owned: 'Frater Radulphus de Beaux- ... conventus Noviomensis', 'Frater Michael Dedruentis', and 'Frater Ludovici Haller', s. xvi (fol. 1); Mario Roques, until 1966. Purchased 12 September 1966 from Lucien Dorbon catalogue (25 August 1966), lot 703. I am grateful to Dr John Milsom for drawing my attention to this source.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

As the plate of this item shows, the music is laid out in two-voice score, with the text copied under each voice in 1, and under the lower voice only in 2 and 3. It is not certain, however, that this music is polyphonic, since the the two lines fit very poorly, and since in 1 and 2 both voices carry a known plainsong for Venite exultemus (see AM, pll. 192, 196, 198). The upper voice of 3 has not been identified; the lower voice carries a further plainsong for this text (AM, pl. 194). 1-3 Incomplete; 3 End lost.

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