Extent: 1 choir book (121 leaves) : parchment ; 539-587 x 368-386 (416-430 x 280-285) mm, in binding 631 x 413 mm
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Manuscript music. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. 121 (foliated in contemporary(?) black ink 1-97); 12 2-88 99(-2) 10-128 13-202 212(-1) 225(+5); prickings visible in upper and outer margin; leaves mended by sewing. Layout: Written chiefly in 5 long lines, frame ruled in lead point; other leaves vary between 3-9 long lines, ruled in lead- and hard-point. Script: Written in southern textura in approximately 7 different hands; hand A: fol. 3v-99v; hand B; 3r (bottom of leaf), 100-115v; hand C: 116r-116v; hand D: 1r-2v; 117r-120r; hand E: 121r-121v; hand F: fol. 3r (top of leaf). Decoration: Fol. 3v large red and blue "A" in double line frame with background of red and brown cross-hatching and foliate decoration in negative space with some yellow highlighting, corner border with similar decoration; fol. 4v medium red "V" in single line frame on background of blue and red cross-hatching; red and gold initials within red decorative border (fol. 1r, 2r); blue initial... Music: Red 5-line staves with black square and measured notation, 5 staves per page; fol. 114r and 115v 3 staves per page; fol. 1r, 2v, 100r-101v, 103r-106v, 107v-108v, 110v-111v, 112v-113v, 114v-115r, 117r, 119r 6 staves per page; fol. 1v-2r, 102r, 116r, 118r-118v, 119v, 120r, 121r-121v 7 staves per page; fol. 102r and 107r 8 staves per page; fol. 116v 9 staves per page; "Credo romano", Credo... Origin: Probably written in Extremadura, Spain, 17th century; fol. 100-115 probably later; probably Franciscan in origin based upon the inclusion of saints Peter of Alcantara, Anthony of Padua, and Diadacus. Marginal annotations in Spanish in a later(?) hand: fol. 3r, 43v, 58r, 68v, and 73v. Variant text added in a later hand: fol. 10v, 53r, 54r-54v, 56v, 58r-59r, and 63v-65r. Fol. 115v text corrected with paper pastedown "exûta carnis tegmine." Fols. 89r-89v, 115r-115v, and 120r have evidence of paper pastedowns (now missing) that probably had variant text. Two woven metallic thread bookmarks laid in.
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