Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink in 6 long lines of text and square notation on a 4-line red stave; headings in red, colored initials in red and blue with penwork flourishes, and capitals stroked in red. Last leaf is a fragment from a larger manuscript. Written for a Cistercian religious house, probably in the region of Rheinau in the diocese of Constance, ca. 1300. Bound in contemporary thick wood boards, half covered with parchment; upper and lower bosses, and traces of a clasp on covers. Purchased with the Bayard Livingston Kilgour and Kate Gray Kilgour fund, 2005.
Do you have more information to share with the Holding Institution about this manuscript or would you like to suggest a correction? Contact information is available for member institutions via our member directory.
