Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Textura; Secretary. Layout: 16(flyleaves) 28 38(+8) 48 58(+5) 68(+8) 78(+6) 88(+4) 98(6 is a contemporary replacement, attached to the tab of its "conjunct") 108 112(+3, f. 86, flyleaf). Catchwords in the lower right corner; the catchword of quire 2 in an ink frame; quire and leaf signatures in letters and roman numerals. Ruled space, 119 x 89 mm; 7 lines of text and music through most of the volume; 21 long... Music: Music on red 4-line staves. Span folios: ff. 1-86v. Other Decoration: Major initials, 5- to 4-line, on ff. 7, 12v and 22, parted red and blue with flourishing of both colors in a possible imitation of thirteenth century work. Assigned Date: s. XVIin. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009. Written in England at the beginning of the sixteenth century presumably for Dame Margery Byrkenhed of the Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary at Chester; her ownership note on f. 85v appears to be in the same hand as the text. The saints whose altars are named for the washing ceremony of Maundy Thursday are not those of Salisbury and thus could be those of Chester; assigned to Chester by Ker...
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