12th century glossed version of Lucan's Pharsalia with a 13th century fragment before f. 1. The music is from a motet MS of French type, originally c. 180 x 149 mm. at least. What remainsis the bottom half of a bifolio, which also lacks the right vertical half of the second leaf. It dates from the same time as the 7th and 8th fascicles of Mo, (i.e. the end of the 13th century). All the pieces are known from other sources.

9th century red morocco binding, ornamented with gilt tooling

longs and breves clearly differentiated, semibreves set syllabically, c.o.p. ligatures

now 6 red five-line staves per page

Ink foliation at t.r.r., 19th century; fragment is numbered I in pencil at t.r.r

parchment

RISM B/IV 1: The corpus is a 12th century parchment manuscript meas. 230 x 132 mm. This source contains 98 folios + 1 blank unnumbered paper flyleaf at each end belonging to the 19th century red morocco binding, which is ornamented with gilt tooling. The ink foliation at t.r.r. also dates from the 19th century. The music is a 13th century fragment numbered I in pencil at t.r.r. It measures 225 x 130 mm. and precedes f. 1. The main contents of the codex are a glossed version of Lucan's Pharsalia. The music is from a motet ms of French type meas. originally c. 180 x 149 mm. at least. The remaining page is the bottom half of a bifolio, which also lacks the right vertical half of the second leaf. It dates from the same time as the 7th and 8th fascicles of Mo, namely from the end of the 13th century, since longs and breves are clearly differentiated, while semibreves are set syllabically and c.o.p. ligatures also appear. There are now 6 red five-line staves per page. All the pieces are known from other sources.

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