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.
GB-Lbl Sloane 1313
British Library, London, England
non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Sloane 1313 |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 210 x 140 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
some music obliterated when folio was trimmed to serve as flyleaf
Binding
New covers of brown leather and cloth on boards
Notation
not indicated
Ruling
Ca.13.5 mm
Foliation
New ink foliation, 1-148, cancels earlier (but still modern) system of ink foliation, 1-157
Foliation
i r+v
Decoration
Red staves; no other decoration.
Surface
ii paper + i parchment + 146 paper + iii paper
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.
i verso
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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, vol. 55. 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, 27: 1-69.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 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