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Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance. Edited by John Haines and Randall Rosenfeld. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. [xxxiv, 438 p. ISBN 0-7546-0991-X. $104.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography.
In a twelfth-century colophon, the pen warns the scribe: "Hold me firmly and put me down gently. If you have not written well, you will have a bad day." (from Arras, Mediatheque 924, fol. 1, as translated by Richard Gameson, The Scribe Speaks? Colophons in Early English Manuscripts, H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, 12 [Cambridge: Department of Anglo Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2001], 2.) In this collection of ...