Single leaf containing three items, all given anonymously, all in imperfect time, major prolation, and apparently written by three different scribes. 3 recto: complete three-part setting in score of [Salve] regina misericordie, votive antiphon for the Virgin, chant untransposed and unornamented in lowest voice, without intonation. Text in a cursive English hand below each accolade. f. 3 verso: Complete setting in three-part score of Venit dilectus meus, a very short antiphon for the assumption of the Virgin. Sarum chant untransposed in middle voice. Text below lowest voice in a semi-formal hand. This is followed by the successively notated upper and tenor (Te iure laudant) parts of the Credo by Pennard known from British Library, Add. MS 57950 (Old Hall), ff. 76v-77, edited in The Old Hall Manuscript, ed. Andrew Hughes and Margaret Bent (see bibliography). The commentary (vol. III) reports the existence of a concordance whose whereabouts was then unknown. The text here is in a formal liturgical gothic. There are light rhythmic and melodic variants in relation to the Old Hall copy, which eradicates an older English habit of notating rests, followed in Princeton, whereby the normal semibreve rest form is used for two minim rests in hockets, and a perfect semibreve rest (also in the tenor part) is shown by a line intersecting the stave line. The setting is of the 'cursor' type, where text alternates with melismas between the upper two parts. The missing facing page presumably contained the second cantus part, contratenor and solus tenor. Presumably removed from a binding and now bound into a guard-book of fragments. Presumably discovered by Kenneth Levy.

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black stave lines. Some staves have only 3 lines (f. 3 recto)

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