Extent: 3 leaves : parchment, ill., music ; 192 x 155 (145 x 114) mm
Note:
Ms. leaves. Title from Kidd. Foliated in ink: 64, 73, 79. Layout: Ruled in plummet for up to 21 lines of text or combinations of text and music; 4-line staves ruled in red for music. Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Decoration: 3 two-line initials in gold with pen infilling and flourishing; 4 three-line calligraphic initials in black, one with drawing of male head in profile. Music: Includes musical notation (block notation) Origin: Written in France during the 15th century. Benedictines of Saint-Étienne at Caen (1472); unidentified reader who added numbers '13' and '12' in margins; Rev. Acton Griscom, of High Point, NJ, who added 'E.11' (before 1937); Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, CA, their price of 3 dollars in pencil on each leaf (1946-1947); Ray W. and Elizabeth Scheetz (1947); given to Nicholas B. Scheetz (1980s?)
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