Burney MS 277

Materials: Paper with parchment fragments mounted.

Dimensions:

450 x 345 mm for the paper leaves that contain mounted parchment fragments.

f. 1: 265 mm x 175 mm (text 180 mm x 110 mm in one column)

f. 2-3: Two fragments 160 mm x 110 mm (text space 155* mm x 55 mm in one column)

f. 4: Paper bifolium 270 mm x 195 mm (text space 245 mm x 150 mm in one column)

ff. 5-8: Parchment folios of 265 mm x 175 mm (text 210 mm x 135 mm in one column)

ff. 9-17: Fragments of various sizes but ff.. 5-17 full sized at 405 mm x 265 mm (text space 350 mm x 220 mm in two columns with intercolumnium of 20 mm and surrounding glosses).

ff. 18-19: Fragment of a bifolium (remaining of one leaf 100 mm x 140 mm with text in one column)

f. 20: Fragment of a folio 150 mm x 90 mm with text in two columns wiith intercolumnium of 15 mm.

f. 21: One parchment leaf of 200 mm x 155 mm (text space 160 mm x 105 mm in one column).

ff. 22-23v: 185 x 210 in two columns (fragments)

f. 24: 135 mm x 95 mm (text space: 95 mm x 70 mm in two columns on recto; one on verso)

ff. 25-26: Upper bifolium of a quire. Complete folio (f. 24): 230 mm x 170 mm (155 m x 105 mm in one column), f. 26 cut around resulting in text loss.

f. 27: 125 mm x 170 mm (poems in two columns with the commentary in one below).

ff. 28-29: 185 mm x 130 mm (text space 155 mm x 105 mm in one column)

f. 30: 85 mm x 135 mm (fragmented text in two columns with intercolumnium of 5 mm)

f. 31: 135 mm x 95 mm (fragmented text in two columns)

f. 32: 205 mm x 155 mm.

ff. 33-34: 205 mm x 120 mm, fragments taken from bindings.

f. 35: 235 mm x 160 mm, fragment of a folio comprising almost entire leaf with outer margin and some text cut and some loss from the top.

Foliation: ff. 73 paper leaves with fragments mounted or glued to them.

Script:

f. 1: Humanist bookhand of the 15th century with large red initial showing penwork decoration.

f. 2-3: Gothic bookhand of the 13th century with blue and red initials showing penwork decoration. Interlinear and marginal notes in Gothic cursive.

f. 4: Humanist cursive of the mid-16th century.

ff. 5-8: Gothic cursive (Anglicana) of the 14th century.

ff. 9-17: Gothic rotunda of the 14th century.

ff. 18-19: Gothic cursive (Anglicana)

f. 20: Gothic semi cursive of the 14th/15th century.

f. 21: Gothic cursive of the 15th century.

ff. 22-23: Gothic; notes on four-line red staves. A bar border of blue, brown, and gold, with an interlace knot and sprouting three-leaf foliage (f. 22), a blue initial with red penwork decoration, small red, blue, and brown initials .Musical notation: square notation on four-line red staves.

f. 24: Gothic bookhand of the late-14th century with rubrics in red.

ff. 25-26: Gothic bookhand of 13th/14th century with chapter titles in red.

f. 27: Gothic cursive of the 14th century (Anglicana)

ff. 28-29: Humanist cursive with title in red.

f. 30: Gothic bookhand with marginal annotation in Gothic cursive (Anglicana)

f. 31: Gothic with blue and red initials and rubrics in red.

f. 32: Gothic with notes on four lines.

ff. 33-34: Proto-Gothic of the mid-13th century with marginal annotations of the later 15th/early 16th century.

f. 35: Gothic bookhand of the late 14th / early 15th century with blank spaces left for notes.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.