GB-Lbl Sloane 1313

British Library, London, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Sloane 1313
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 210 x 140 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBLSL 1313
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  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Music on a parchment flyleaf at the beginning of a herbary. Music appears only on the recto. Copied in England. Later owned by the collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collection passed to British Museum in 1753. The music is edited in Wright 2013.

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Physical Description

some music obliterated when folio was trimmed to serve as flyleaf

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Binding

New covers of brown leather and cloth on boards

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Notation

not indicated

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Ruling

Ca.13.5 mm

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Foliation

New ink foliation, 1-148, cancels earlier (but still modern) system of ink foliation, 1-157

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Foliation

i r+v

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Decoration

Red staves; no other decoration.

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Surface

ii paper + i parchment + 146 paper + iii paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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English herbary, with polyphony:

1 Gloria (fragment of altus part only)

Anonymous

ii paper + i parchment + 146 paper + iii paper folios, 210 x 140. New ink foliation, 1-148, cancels earlier (but still modern) system of ink foliation, 1-157. New covers of brown leather and cloth on boards. Music appears only on recto of parchment folio at beginning; some music obliterated when folio was trimmed to serve as flyleaf for the herbary. Red staves; no other decoration.

15th century (flyleaf with music); herbary dates from 15th or 16th century. Copied in England. Later owned by the collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collection passed to British Museum in 1753.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
i Et in terra pax [Gloria] - Anonymous

Et in terra pax [Gloria]

Anonymous
Appears on: i
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria
General Note

G48
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Et in terra pax [Gloria] Anonymous i

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‡ denotes primary source study

Wright, Peter (editor). 2013. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, VIII: Settings of the Gloria and Credo. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Notes: edition.

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 1-69.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 211.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Physical Description Note; Binding Note; Notation Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description