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Medieval Music Database

London, British Library, Sloane 1210

A grammatical treatise dated 1420, but with two musical flyleaves at the beginning and five at the end from a smaller manuscript of the middle third of the 14th century. The 14 works include motets and mass movements.

INVENTORIES


  1. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, pp. 229-234.

  2. SHELDON, Margaret Mary. A Musicological and Paleographical Study of London, British Library, MS Sloane 1210, M.Mus. dissertation, London (Goldsmith's): 1979.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Credo (Credo))

  2. fol. 1%%, [V]eni, mi dilecte, iam aperiuntur (cantilena))

  3. fol. 1%%v, [A]rbor Ade veteris (cantilena))

  4. fol. 1v-1%%, [T]riumphus patet hodie - ... genuflectere et summo opere (whole chant setting))

  5. fol. 138-139, Gloria (Gloria))

  6. fol. 139-139v, [K]yria, Christifera plebis modulantis (Kyrie))

  7. fol. 139v-140, [V]irgo salvavit hominem (cantilena))

  8. fol. 140, O lux beata trinitas (hymn))

  9. fol. 140v-141, [Q]uare fremuerunt gentes - [Q]uare fremuerunt gentes (whole chant setting))

  10. fol. 141v, [Gaudeamus o]mnes in Domino (introit))

  11. fol. 141v, [All]eluia. O miranda Domina merito (alleluia))

  12. fol. 142, [I]n rosa primula cum ver florigerat (cantilena))

  13. fol. 142v-143, [Z]elo tui langueo, virgo regia - [R]eor nescia que sit sapientia (motet))

  14. fol. 143v, [A]b ora summa nuncius a summo patre mittitur (cantilena))


LITERATURE


  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252 (p. 224).

  2. EVERIST, Mark and Margaret BENT. 'Cambridge, St. John's College MS 84 (D.9)' [in] `New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony', compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982): 315-321.

CONCORDANCES

1.Cambridge, Pembroke College 228 (iv, Credo).
2.Cambridge, St. John's College Library 84 (D.9) (1-1v, [A]b ora summa nuncius a summo patre mittitur; 3v-4, [I]n rosa primula cum ver florigerat).
3.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Handschriften-Inkunabelabteilung, Latinus monacensis 5023 (153-155, [A]rbor Ade veteris).
4.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch. Selden B.14 (312v\1, [K]yria, Christifera plebis modulantis).
5.York, Minster Library xvi.N.3 (10v, [Z]elo tui langueo, virgo regia - [R]eor nescia que sit sapientia).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

XIvth and Early XVth Century English Polyphony: Expèriences Anonymes EA 31: Gloria;.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003