Layout: 2 columns, 27 (2 text lines = 1 musical staff) lines Decoration: Fol. 136.1: 1 3-line initial in blue surrounded by contrasting red penwork, 1 3-line initial in black with matching penwork, and 1 2-line initial in blue with red and black penwork Decoration: Fol. 136.2: 1 9-line, 1 5-line, and 2 2-line initials in blue with contrasting red penwork, with red and blue penwork borders at bottom and exterior of the text block. Decoration: Both folios with prompts and rubrics in red and numerous 1-line blue pilcrows Recycled as binding fragments, both former pastedowns Both fols. with later (16th-century) pen inscriptions written upsidedown in their lower margins; inscription of fol. 136.1 in English, and fol. 136.2 in Latin) Later pen trials in exterior margin of fol. 136.1 Both fols. ruled in brown ink Each fol. includes 4-line musical staves in red with square notation Original MS likely dismantled and recycled during the English Reformation Incipit: Fol. 136.1: …salis…dignanter [heavily abraded text] Fol. 136.2: [heavily abraded text] Explicit: Fol. 136.1: expugnas te domine trementes et suppli… Consecutive folios of prayers, chants, music, and liturgical instructiosn for the blessing, or exorcism, of water and salt
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