Layout: 1 column Script: Gothic pearl script in red, brown, and blue ink. Musical notation in square notes, in brown ink on a three- or four-line staff. Marginal notes in the same hand. Decoration: Twelve large initials in red, blue, mauve, and rose with birds and flowers, in a notably English style. Pen and ink flourishes in the margins sometimes decorated with grotesques. Binding: 18th-century red morocco. Gold tooling. Four paper fly-leaves. Housed in a red morocco case. Somewhat creased and damaged by dampness. Several initials badly faded. Leaves have been trimmed, cutting off some of the marginal decoration. Collation: I-II^12, III^10, IV^12, V-VI^14, VII-VIII^12, IX-XII^14, XIII^14 (wants 8), XIV^16 (added later) Provenance: William Constable’s copy with his bookplate. George Dunn copy, bought by him May 1889. Dunn sale (London, February 14, 1913), No. 633, to Ellis. Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from James F. Drake, November 1920. Provenance: Somewhat contemporary (13th-14th c.) additions to the calendar (ex. Cedd (2 March) and Cuthbert (20 March)) indicate early English use. Manuscript psalter with musical notation for Franciscan use, written and decorated in England during the 14th century. Added quire at the back of the codex appears roughly contemporary, ca. 13th/14th c., in an English/French pearl script.
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