Copy number: P-512(1)

Leaf o4v, l. 21: ‘ . . . dominū'.

Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with two metal catches and remains of clasps. Metal support around the corners. Leather index tabs in the shape of knots. Rebacked. Triple fillets form a triple frame. No stamps within the outer frame; within the following frame a single roll of the four evangelists. Vertical triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into four compartments, decorated with the same roll.

Size: 280 × 210 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 266 × 188 mm.

A strip from a thirteenth-century manuscript on parchment is used as the front pastedown.

In a few instances the musical notation of antiphons has been written on the printed four-line staves. After the psalter is bound a manuscript Antiphoner, written for a community of secular nuns of the Third Order of S. Francis in Holland, c. 1500; see S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist to the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 7 vols in typescript (Oxford, 1957-60), II/I fol. 139. It includes antiphons for the feast of S. Willibrordus, Lebuinus, Barbara, and Pancracius. ‘2718' in brown ink on front endleaf. Sheppard notes the presence of a macaronic carol in Latin and Dutch with musical notation in manuscript on the last leaf(?), but this has not been found.

On a2r an eight-line initial ‘B' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, within a square ground made of red pen-work decoration with extensions into the margin.

Provenance: Netherlands, a community of secular nuns of the Third Order of S. Francis (fifteenth/sixteenth century); see above. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 144^v: ‘Rawl.’ Bequeathed in 1755.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 3.18.