Binder's title. Collation: Parchment. i, 16, i, 2-268. The first half of quire 2 is signed ai-aiv, other signatures partially preserved. Catchwords written within a decorative banner. Two series of modern pencil foliation; the series in the lower right corner is correct and followed here. Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines full-length, upper and lower are doubled, bounding and writing lines in brown ink, prickings partially preserved at outer corners. Square notation on a four-line red staff. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: 2- and 4-line initials throughout in blue with red filigree. Origin: Written in England in the second half of the fourteenth century; the calendar shows Easter on March 27, which during the fourteenth century ocurred in 1323, 1334, and 1345. The first two dates are too early for the script. The remaining date, 1345, need not necessarily be the exact date the manuscript was created, since the scribe could have been copying an exemplar from that year. Secundo folio: [see incipit Bought ca. 1925 from Newman F. McGirr, Philadelphia.
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