A fragmentary folio with a written space of 172 mm wide. Copied by two hands, responsible for recto and verso, writing a good and a less good gothica textualis quadrata respectively.

1 Middle voice copied in black ink; other voices copied in another ink, now faint brown and barely legible even under ultra-violet light. Middle voice paraphrases chant Gaude Maria virgo (e.g. LU, pp. 1266-1267). Probably ends at the end of the fourth line of the text, at 'permanisti', although a further system, now cut off, may have contained a setting of the fifth line.

2 Incomplete; ed. PMFC 16, No. 33; text is a further trope of the Gloria trope Spiritus et alme.

Written in England. Used to form a stitched front cover to 705:349 BA 5117/1 (xiv)/3, a rental of the manor of Aylesbury in 1568/9, and inventory of household goods there in 1576. Cover unstitched in April 1983. Owned: Packington family, Lords Hampton, from 1568. Deposited in the Worcestershire Record Office, February 1968. Other Aylesbury materials from the Hampton deposit are in the Birmingham Reference Library.

English Ars nova/ternary breve-semibreve: many of the breves were originally longs whose stems have been erased (see Lefferts in PMFC 16), eradicating some plicas; in the original notation modus was perfect.

twelve red five-line staves (14-14.5 mm), freely-ruled in systems of three; frame-rules, rules for staves, and double text-guides

r+v

unfoliated

blue initial flourished in black to 2; capitals in text splashed in blue.

Parchment

RISM Supplement: 1 fol. (fragmentary; unfoliated). Parchment. Now 157 x 205 mm; page originally perhaps 320 x 230 mm. Written space 172 mm wide. Ruling: twelve red five-line staves (14-14.5 mm), freely-ruled in systems of three; frame-rules, rules for staves, and double text-guides. Script: two hands, responsible for recto and verso, writing a good and a less good gothica textualis quadrata respectively. Notation: English Ars nova / ternary breve-semibreve. Many of the breves were originally longs whose stems have been erased (see Lefferts in PMFC 16), eradicating some plicas; in the original notation modus was perfect. Decoration: blue initial flourished in black to 2; capitals in text splashed in blue.

Written in England. Used to form a stitched front cover to 705:349 BA 5117/1 (xiv)/3, a rental of the manor of Aylesbury in 1568/9, and inventory of household goods there in 1576. Cover unstitched in April 1983. Owned: Packington family, Lords Hampton, from 1568. Deposited in the Worcestershire Record Office, February 1968. Other Aylesbury materials from the Hampton deposit are in the Birmingham Reference Library.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1 Middle voice copied in black ink; other voices copied in another ink, now faint brown and barely legible even under ultra-violet light. Middle voice paraphrases chant Gaude Maria virgo (e.g. LU, pp. 1266-1267). Probably ends at the end of the fourth line of the text, at 'permanisti', although a further system, now cut off, may have contained a setting of the fifth line.

2 Incomplete; ed. PMFC 16, No. 33; text is a further trope of the Gloria trope Spiritus et alme.

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