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Description:: Music:Prague notation on five-line staffs inked in red. Using the punctum, pes, clivis(?), plica(?) or other liquescent, and other unidentified ligatures. Pitch given by F letter clefs on the third or fourth line of each staff (where visible). A B-flat accidental appears on fragment 1; as the clef has been obscured, it is not possible to say with certainty what pitch it modifies, but it is most likely an E-flat or B-flat. The large size of both notation and text as well as the low register of the chant melodies indicates that the original manuscript was indeed intended for choral performance. Undoubtedly produced in or near Prague due to the distinctive regional notation; the rhomb-shaped noteheads are characteristic of the city’s medieval sign system.
Date:: XV
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Description:: Bound in modern (s. XIX) paper over boards; printed Phillipps label on spine with number 16920. Modern handwriting on spine reads “MANDAGOTO de ELECTIO – NIBUS.”
Date:: s. XIV in
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Description:: Written in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century, a fragment from a pocket-size sermon book produced by its user, judging by its inexpert script, simplicity of design and execution, and the poor quality of the parchment. Bought from Bernard Rosenthal (his MS 62, in pencil on inside of front cover) in August 1988 by Richard and Mary Rouse. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Date:: XIII 2/2
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Description:: Written in Germany in the middle of the fifteenth century, to judge from script, decoration, and the latest watermark; the copying, and perhaps the composition, are the owner’s. Acquired by Bernard Rosenthal, San Francisco, in or before 1983 (his no. 53, folio 1); bought from Rosenthal in March 1988 by Richard and Mary Rouse. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Date:: XV
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Description:: The first leaf of each cantata except no. 16 (folios 185-200) has been excised after the manuscript was foliated. The original foliation is used in this description; the titles in brackets come from the table of contents on folio 201.
Date:: XVII
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Description:: Written in the first quarter of the fifteenth century in England, perhaps in or for use in Kent (indicated by inclusion in the calendar of a feast commemorating the return of Thomas Becket from exile, a local commemoration). Signatures f. 39: “Thomas” inverted; f. 58: “John” and “For I am in love with her that me r—ith”; f. 76v: “Antony Lister” (s. XV), f. 79: “Houbande Lister” inverted. Pen trials on ff. 30v, 39, 79. Pencil note on f. ii: “Purchased from the Towneley Hall Library” (Towneley Hall, Lancashire). Dealers’ notes on f. iv: “VNW 138” and “A6”. Bought by Les Enluminures at the Los Angeles Antiquarian Book Fair 16-18 February 1996. Bought from Les Enluminures by Richard and Mary Rouse in February 1996. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Date:: s. XV1/4.
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts