Dates and brief descriptions for the Beissel Collection provided by Bernard Bischoff prior to 1959 sale. Digitized in 2020 by Peripheral Manuscripts in the Midwest.
Cataloging Convention
Englishds-schema
Decoration
Initials in red and black with red, including an F with a face in profile for Ferax est terra domini venter.
Approximately 28 lines extant as trimmed, with irregular ruling. Music staffs approximately 3 ruled lines of text high when combined; some notation cut off at top of leaf.
One of sixty manuscript fragments collected by Stephan Beissel and acquired by librarian Walter Roesch for the University of Dayton from William Salloch in October 1959. The collection is listed as item 481 in Salloch catalogue 180, The Middle Ages.
Script
Gothic script with hufnagel notation on four-line ruled staffs.