Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment. i2, 1-138, 146−1, 15-268, [lacking an unknown number of folios here], 272, 289; first two folios are later additions; lacking one folio after p. 218; lacking at least one folio, but probably more, before p. 425 (quire 27); the last quire is nineteenth-century paper. One signature extant, on p. 183 ("m4" -- this is in fact the fourth folio of the twelfth quire, which is... Layout: 1 column, 7 staves. Bounding lines double-fillet in red ink for inner and outer margins only. Square notation on a four-line red staff. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: Initials are staff-high alternating blue with red filigree or red with purple filigree, sometimes with green and/or yellow infill, psalm and verse initials stroked green. Origin: Written in France in the sixteenth century. Franciscan use is indicated by the emphasis on the Franciscan Saints Francis and Clare. There is an effaced inscription in lower margin of fol. 1. On fol. A, two inscriptions (17th and 18th-century respectively) identify the manuscript as the property of the "Conventus Sancti Francisci Aquarum" (this location is as yet unidentified, but may... Belonged to John T. Beer.
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