Origin in Reims suggested by notation style, and saints commemorated. Cf. Spec. Coll. Info File for letter from Michel Huglo; and Huglo's "Les manuscrits du processionnal" in RISM B/XIV¹ (B/XIV² forthcoming). Written by two scribes in gothic bookhands; text in black ink, rubrics in red; text capitals in red and blue; larger capitals in red and blue, elaborately and extensively flourished in blue and red, respectively; seven large illuminated initials with staves of burnished gold, backgrounds filled in with blue or mauve traced with white, and framed in burnished gold; 3 full-page illuminated... First [149] leaves, ruled in gray, contain 8 lines of text and 8 lines of music on each page, with music arranged on red 4-line staves in Aquitanian notation; leaves [150]-[213], ruled in brown ink, contain 12 lines of text or text with music, with music arranged on red 3-line staves with square notation. Signatures: 1-38 48(+1) 5-88 96(+1,-3) 10-278. Marginal annotations and text additions (e.g. leaf [69]v) in a different hand, in brown ink; long-eared owl [?] doodled in margin of leaf [96]v, also in brown ink. Gold-stamped red leather armorial bookplate of William A. Foyle.
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.
