Extent: 1 choir book (197 leaves) : parchment ; 491 x 345 (380 x 230) mm, in binding 525 x 365 mm
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Manuscript music. Title devised by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. 197 (numbered intermittently in pencil 1-197); 17(+1) 27(-1) 3-88 98(-6, -7) 108 118(-1) 128(-1, -3) 13-228 238(-1, -8) 2411(+1, -3, -11) 258 268(-8) 275(+1, -4). Layout: Written in long lines; ruled in lead point; guide letters occasionally visible. Script: Written in textura in 3 hands. Hand A, fol. 1-169; hand B, fol. 170-193; hand C, fol. 194-197. Decoration: Six large illuminated initials with marginal trompe l'oeil borders, fol. 1r blue "D" on brown background historiated with Mary standing in a garden holding an open book, border in gold with pink, blue, and red flowers, a bird and a bee; fol. 31v gold "Q" on brown background, filled with a plant with blue and white flowers, border in green, gold, and brown with flowers and... Music: Red 4-line staves with black square notation; 10 staves per page; B-flats and E-flats occasionally indicated (in a later hand?); several staves throughout include small G clefs, often in combination a C clef. Origin: Written in Flanders, approximately 1500; probably Cistercian due to the prominence given to the feast of St. Bernard. Inscription, fol. 162v: Bonesse. Initials cut out from fol. 32, 36, 52, 62, and 107.
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