A late 12th-early 13th century parchment manuscript. The musical part of the ms runs from f. 15-100 and may be divided up into 5 fascicles written by various hands at various times (f. 15-22, 23-32, 33-44, 45-89 and 89-100). Even within the individual fascicles the hands vary. The first two fascicles are the oldest. Fasc. 1 is short and contains mainly two-part conductus, while fasc. 2, principally monodic, is the oldest and contains a varied collection of sequences, conductus and Benedicamus and Sanctus Tro. Fasc. 3 begins with 2 Kyrie Tro and continues with love-songs and conductus: it contains many unica. Fasc. 4 (up to f. 82) is principally polyphonic and the majority of the two-part sequences from StM-B turn up again here. The rest of the ms consists of monodic Sanctus and Agnus Tro, together with secular and sacred oddments and a couple of two-part Benedicamus Tro. As in StM-B, the notation is on 3- or 4-line dry-point staves, but here there are only 3 accolades of 2 staves per page. The notes are more like dashes than points, and both script and notation are less neat than in the other St. Martial sources. The librarian of St. Martial, Bernart Itier, perhaps bound together the different sections; certainly he wrote on f.115v: Hec scripsi anno 1210.

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RISM B/IV 1: A late 12th-early 13th century parchment manuscript meas. 153 x 104 mm. and containing 115 folios + 4 flyleaves at each end. All the flyleaves are unnumbered except the last of the front four, which bears the foliation f. I. The binding and foliation are as in StM-A. The musical part of the ms runs from f. 15-100 and may be divided up into 5 fascicles written by various hands at various times (f. 15-22, 23-32, 33-44, 45-89 and 89-100). Even within the individual fascicles the hands vary. The first two fascicles are the oldest. Fasc. 1 is short and contains mainly two-part conductus, while fasc. 2, principally monodic, is the oldest and contains a varied collection of sequences, conductus and Benedicamus and Sanctus Tro. Fasc. 3 begins with 2 Kyrie Tro and continues with love-songs and conductus: it contains many unica. Fasc. 4 (up to f. 82) is principally polyphonic and the majority of the two-part sequences from StM-B turn up again here. The rest of the ms consists of monodic Sanctus and Agnus Tro, together with secular and sacred oddments and a couple of two-part Benedicamus Tro. As in StM-B, the notation in StM-C is on 3- or 4-line dry-point staves, but here there are only 3 accolades of 2 staves per page. The notes are more like dashes than points, and both script and notation are less neat than in the other St. Martial sources. Even in StM-C, the librarian of St. Martial, Bernart Itier, once again played a part, perhaps in binding together the different sections. Certainly he wrote on f.115v: Hec scripsi anno 1210.

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