The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark L.2.b) of ‘The Holye Byble: that is to saye, (etc.)’ (1539).

(i-ii) Two discontiguous vellum fragments apparently from the same mediaeval religious manuscript, possibly a 15th-century missal or breviary, though not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The notation and corresponding text is written in double columns: the notation is in black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics are in red, the only initial is in blue.

(iii) Parchment fragment from a printed book of hours containing Psalm cxxix (130), verse 8 (presumably from the Hours of the Dead);

(iv-vi) Three fragments of paper, used to supply defective pages of ‘The Holye Byble: that is to saye, (etc.)’ (1539).