Parish Register of births, baptisms and marriages in the parish of St. Vigor at Saint-Martin-de-Mieux, France. Written in several highly cursive hands, the first notebook: 6 pages, of which the last three leaves are blank, bound in part of a bifolium from an early twelfth-century Missal (160 x 130 mm); the second notebook: 14 pages, of which 7–13 are blank, bound in contemporary plain stiff vellum wrappers (153 x 122 mm); the above two notebooks bound within the third notebook: 8 pages of which 5–7 are blank (180 x 143 mm) All gathered in contemporary rustic boards (slightly rubbed and soiled, worm-track in lower cover and last page, binding knots visible)

Vellum wrappers: MISSAL, with neumes, with readings and music for the fourth week after Pentecost, part of a bifolium (leaves consecutive) preserved as the wrap- pers of a seventeenth-century manuscript parish register, double columns written in dark brown ink in two sizes of a rounded Caroline hand, 19 lines remaining, ruled with a hard point, each column within single vertical bounding lines, adiastematic neumes, two-line initials alternately in red and green, the green initials with penwork flourishes in red, smaller initials touched with red; slightly stained, recto of first leaf and verso of second leaf somewhat worn, trimmed with loss of part of outer column of text and approximately three lines at head, stitching holes and remains of thread indicating prior use as a (perhaps larger) wrapper. Northern France (probably Normandy), 1st quarter of 12th century. From a Missal of rather modest dimensions, probably originally almost square in format. The presence of baubles within the bodies of the initials and the use of muted green for some of them are both features found (though not exclusively) in manuscripts from Normandy.