MS. Broxb. 89.4
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Former shelfmark: Broxbourne ledger no. R 1105
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
Fols. v-x: 1 col., c. 31 lines, written space 150 × 115 mm.
Fols. 161–179: 1 col., 19 lines of script or 7 lines of script and 7 staves of music, or a variable mixture, written space 155–65 × 110 mm. .
Otherwise 2 cols., 36 lines, column space 145 × 45–50 mm.
Musical notation on staves.
Decoration
Illuminated border.
Illuminated initials.
Coloured initials.
Rubrics.
Binding
Leather over boards, early 16th century.
Blind-stamped.
Rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Hic liber emptus a Johanne de hannonia nondum ligatus. Per venerabiles viros dominum Judocum bochstael presbitrum. Fratrem Danielem scuppelin magistrum. fratrem Leonardum van den beckene professum prochialis[sic] ecclesie et domus marie magdalene iuxta brugis. et per petrum van cassele decanum et quamplures confratres gulde seu confraternitatis ad nutum et ad vsum altaris sancti Alexij confessoris in eadem ecclesia situatis[sic]. Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo octauo. Decima octaua die mensis Septembris. Per me Jacobum Byens fideliter scriptum. et eciam ad deo laudem correcte completum. Ad vsum cathedralis ecclesiae Tornacensis. I.0.5.8[sic] 16. octobris’ (fol. 291v).
Presented to the Bodleian by his son, John Ehrman, in 1978 through the Friends of the National Libraries.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-08-08: Description revised with reference to Watson.