The fragments stem from an unidentified edition of St Cyprian's Sermon de la mortalité, or perhaps a collection of sermons. 

Quire marks

France? The type looks French, but it could have been printed in other French speaking areas, too.

Re-used in a Danish stationer-bookbinder's shop.

These fragments, along with a series of other early modern paper fragments which formed paste-laminate boards, were removed from the bindings of RARA Musik L 42 128 and 129, two manuscript music booklets. The information given in the following section relates to these host volumes.

The host volume, along with the other volumes kept under this shelfmark, was part of the book collection of Herlufsholm Skole in Næstved, Denmark (est. 1565). Herlufsholm was founded on the grounds of a Benedictine abbey, St Peders Kloster (also known as Skovkloster), that was secularised after the Reformation in 1536/37.

RARA Musik L 42 is a set of four booklets bound in waste parchment. The booklets are paper manuscripts containing polyphonic music in Italian, Latin, German, and Danish copied around 1600. They were used by the school choir in the first half of the 17^th century. The set originally comprised of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and fifth voice), but the soprano booklet is no longer extant. They are numbered 127-130 according to the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales database. 

The host volumes underwent conservation interventions sometime in the 20^th century, during which they were disbound and the paste-laminate boards were removed and taken apart. The boards were made up of waste paper, mostly sheets from 16^th century printed books as well as manuscript ephemera. The waste paper is now kept loose in envelopes under the shelfmark RARA Musik L 46. The outer parchment fragments were put back on the host volumes, restoring the original appearance. The fragments covered in this entry were extracted from booklets 128 (the larger piece) and 129 (the smaller piece).

The bindings the original host volumes are laced-case bindings, made from a single continuous piece of parchment folded around the boards and attached to the spine with three visible laced-in endbands. The L 42 volumes were probably bound before they arrived at the school.