Caption title: "Mottel [Mottete?] von die Zeiten [?]." Possible dates suggested by a textual reference to the year 1603, when the last General Chapter of the nuns passed a regulation for celebrating St. Reymundus on Jan. 7. Music for several motets, inserted into text, is arranged on 4-line staves, with square notation. In different hands: first [36] leaves in a broad cursive hand, in black ink; remaining [100] leaves in a square, upright printing, in brown ink. Bound with 10 blank leaves: 3 leaves both preceding and following text, and 4 leaves between sections (leaves [74]-[77]). Binding style suggests that perhaps the book was bound with empty leaves in the late 16th century, and that the blank leaves were filled in a few decades later, during the early part of the 17th century. Bookseller's ticket of William Salloch of Ossining, New York on inside back cover.
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