GB-Lbl Sloane 1580

British Library, London, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 13th century

Archive	British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark	Sloane 1580
Surface	Parchment
Format	portrait
Measurements	167 x 118 mm
Other Identifiers	RISM: Lo 1580
Notations	square unmeasured
Relationships	Sloane family (owner)
External Links	British Library online catalogue entry IIIF manifest
Provenance	England
Contents	Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous.

General Description

Sermons; tracts, including Philippe de Thaon’s Comput; devotional Latin poetry and songs.

Helen Deeming, 2011

Binding

Sloane binding of medium brown leather over pulp boards (the Sloane arms are in gilt on the front and back covers).

Helen Deeming, 2011

Notation

small square unmeasured notation

Helen Deeming, 2011

Foliation

156v-157v

Helen Deeming, 2011

Surface

Parchment

Helen Deeming, 2011

DIAMM Note

Sermons; tracts, including Philippe de Thaon’s Comput; devotional Latin poetry and songs.

s.xiii and s.xiv in; 160 x 120mm; nine units of various lengths, some missing leaves at end, blank outer leaves, variations in page size, many hands, some alternating within booklets.

Helen Deeming, 2011

RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: A 13th century parchment manuscript meas. 167 x 118 mm. and containing 189 folios + 2 blank unnumbered paper folios at the front and 3 at the back belonging to the typical Sloane binding of medium brown leather over pulp boards (the Sloane arms are in gilt on the front and back covers). This miscellany, mainly of sermons, employs red, blue or blue-red initials. Music in the form of sequences appears at several points in the manuscript in small square unmeasured notation to fill up blank spaces. These pieces, which are written by various hands, are mainly monodic, but a single polyphonic sequence is written on 6 accolades of 2 brown four-line staves per page. Red initials are used here, and the presence of a d clef in the lower part suggests English origin. A wavy line separates the two parts written in score, a feature typical of 12th century sources.

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
156v–157v	Verbo caelum quo firmatur	-	Anonymous
Verbo caelum quo firmatur Anonymous Appears on: 156v–157v Genres: Motet Number of voices: 2 Voice: [no designation] Languages: none Clef: c4 Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Clef: d2 Voice Text: Verbo celum quo firmatur Layout score

Composer	Compositions
Anonymous	Verbo caelum quo firmatur – 156v–157v

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Verbo caelum quo firmatur	Anonymous	156v–157v

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Set: Sources of British Song 1150-1300

Type: Project Collection

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