Humanistic cursive

Includes some Greek text.

Pagination in Arabic numerals, alphanumeric quire marks

The fragments represent two bifolia of a quarto manuscript. The bifolia are still attached to each other, meaning at least this sheet was never bound into a codex.

Reused in a Danish stationer-bookbinder's shop.

This fragment, along with a series of other early modern paper fragments which formed paste-laminate boards, was removed from the binding of RARA Musik L 42 130, a manuscript music booklet. The information given in the following section relates to this host volume.

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 booklet 130.

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.