A miscellaneous collection of letters, accounts and a section of the printed History of Reims dating from the 18th century. F. 67 and 68 contain music. The first is a section of a rotulus: items 1-3 and 5 are in two columns and items 4 and 6 in long lines, like the ends of the motet Tr; The texts show Picard forms ('ch' for c), and the presence of 2 chaces is also suggestive of a North-Eastern French origin. The other pieces are 2 Latin and 2 French bitextual motets from the early Ars Nova repertoire. The second page, f. 68, contains 2 three-part Rondeaux in score. At the top and bottom of the stave are pen tests for the musical notation.

The rotulus is cut away at top and bottom, so that the original length was probably c. 480 mm.

brown half-leather with mottled paper covers over pulp boards. The title on the spine is red and there is some gilt on the spine.

Ars Nova with, coloration in black void notes (f. 67); square, clearly measured but without minims (f. 68)

red five-line staves (f. 67); single brown stave (f. 68)

67-68

Vellum

RISM B/IV 2: A miscellaneous collection of letters, accounts and a section of the printed History of Reims dating from the 18th century. There are 69 folios plus 5 unnumbered ones at the front and 3 at the back. The binding is of brown half-leather with mottled paper covers over pulp boards. The title on the spine is red and there is some gilt on the spine. There are two vellum pages of music, f. 67 and 68 meas. respectively 423 x 215 mm. and 275 x 183 mm. The first is a section of a rotulus in Ars Nova notation on red five-line staves. Items 1-3 and 5 are in two columns and items 4 and 6 in long lines, like the ends of the motet Tr. The texts show Picard forms ('ch' for c), and the presence of 2 chaces is also suggestive of a North-Eastern French origin. The other pieces are 2 Latin and 2 French bitextual motets from the early Ars Nova repertoire. The rotulus is cut away at top and bottom, so that the original length was probably c. 480 mm. Coloration is in white notes. The second page f. 68 dates from the early 14th century at the latest and contains 2 three-part Rondeaux in score in a neat square notation which is clearly measured but contains no minims. The bottom stave here is brown. At the top and bottom of this stave there are pen tests for the musical notation.

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