The wooden boards of the binding of the carrier book were presumably originally only partially covered by leather – covering the spine, extending to a third of the front and back boards; today only the smaller half of the front panel remains. The two strips of the parchment leaf were probably pasted across the spine to make the binding more resistant. The front page of the book is missing, however, on the last page (fol. 323 recto) the colophon survived: Explicit summa extraordinaria super institutis maxima cum diligentia Spire impressa Anno millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimo secundo per me Petrum Drach civem Spirensem. On the bottom of fol.1 recto the possessor entry of the Jesuit College of Sopron written in 1641 can be seen.
The fragment has preserved the responsories for the Matins of the 4th week in Lent. The reconstructed order of the pieces fit into the traditional arrangement of most European (and most Hungarian) sources. The rubric at the bottom of the verso (ʽIII’) presumably indicates the number of the lesson in the Nocturn. See CAO-ECE V/A Esztergom/Strigonium (Temporale), ed. Dobszay László, Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2004, 146.
Zsuzsa Czagány