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MS. Bodl. 842

Summary Catalogue no.: 2575

Theinred of Dover, De legimitis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum

Language(s): Latin

Franco of Cologne, Ars cantus mensurabilis

Language(s): Latin

Breuiarium regulare musicae (musical treatise)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials, diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1118)

Binding

Red leather (worn to brown) on oak boards, one clasp lost, English 15th cent. work.

History

Origin: before 1477 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

York, Yorkshire, Convent of Austin friars (?): cf. cat. 645 but rather too late for the cat. (MLGB3: inferred evidence)

Byland, Yorkshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber fratris Iohannis Gillyng monachi Bellalande, emptus a quodam carpentario nomine Sproxton. Anno domini 1477 o . septimo kalendas Iunii'. 'Liber sancte Marie de Bellalanda'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'John Prior' (s. xvi). 'Donum Rich. Roberts'. (MLGB3)