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Sloane MS 1580
- Record Id:
- 040-002113931
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x0000f9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064573121.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1580
- Title:
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Collection of sermons, moral and theological sentences, poems, hymns with monophonic and polyphonic music, prayers, tracts on law, grammar and the computus; including Samson of Canterbury, Excerptae ex diversis voluminibus;Walter of Châtillon, Carmina; De Clarevallensibus et Cluniacensibus; Questiones Adriani Imperatoris Secundo philosopho in silencio philosophantis;Charm against infirmities;Adam of Saint-Victor, Lux iucunda lux insignis; De hominum deificatione (excerpt); Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Visio Karoli Grossi; Office for the Virgin Mary; De Magistratibus Romanis
- Scope & Content:
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This 13th-century miscellany mainly contains theological and liturgical works, including monophonic and polyphonic music. However, it also includes a copy of the Comput (Computus), the oldest extant scientific text in the vernacular, that Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman poet, composed in 1113.
Contents:
ff. 2r-3r: A sermon for the first Sunday of Advent, imperfect at the end, beginning with Daniel 7.13-14: 'Aspiciebam ergo in visione noctis, et ecce cum nubibus caeli quasi filius hominis veniebat, et usque ad antiquum dierum pervenit: et in conspectu ejus obtulerunt eum. Et dedit ei potestatem, et honorem, et regnum: et omnes populi, tribus, et linguae ipsi servient’.
f. 4v: Three lections from the Hours of the Virgin, beginning ‘Veni nobis benedicat de celo et que nata es semel te'.
ff. 5r-7r: A sermon for the Nativity, opening with Psalm 97:2: ‘Notum fecit Dominus salutare suum’.
f. 8r: Moral sentences excerpted from various authors.
ff. 8v-12r: A sermon on justice and mercy, beginning ‘Ut discant pastores animarum in omnibus'.
ff. 13r-16r: Notae [fratris Samsonis monachi] excerptae ex diversis voluminibus (Teachings by the Monk Samson, Excerpted from Various Books); collection of theological teachings on vices and virtues, beginning: ‘Docet nos Deus VI modis; per internam aspiracionem’; includes a gloss by Lanfranc (b. c. 1005 d. 1089), archbishop of Canterbury.
f. 18v: A moral verse, ‘Pax, fama, fides, reverentia, cautio damni, defectus veri, poscunt sibi magna caveri’.
ff. 19r-21r: A collection of Latin sayings, beginning: 'Quinque modis potest dici, Cum mane surgerem’.
ff. 21r-22v: A sermon on things that should be desired and avoided, beginning: 'Rerum expetendarum tria sunt genera'.
ff. 22v-23v: Moral sentences, beginning: 'Radix cuncti mali est superbia’.
f. 24r: Walter of Châtillon (fl. 1170-1180), Carmina (Songs), Carmen 7, beginning: ‘Eliconis rivulo modice respersus’.
ff. 24r-25r: Anonymous, De Clarevallensibus et Cluniacensibus (On [the Monks of] Clairvaux and Cluny), beginning: ‘Dum Saturno conjuge partus parit Rea’.
ff. 25r-26r: Anonymous, Poem on the Word of God, beginning: 'Viri venerabiles, viri litterati’.
ff. 26r-27r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great (b. c 540, d. 604), St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), and a certain ‘Walelmus’.
ff. 27r-27v: Anonymous, Questiones Adriani Imperatoris Secundo philosopho in silencio philosophantis (Questions of the Emperor Hadrian to Secundus the Philosopher, Philosophising in Silence), beginning: ‘Quid est mundus, Secundus respondit. Mundus est, O Adriane, constitucio celi et terre’.
f. 27v: A definition of prayer, beginning: ‘Oratio est pius animi affectus’.
f. 27r: A short exposition on Job 31:37, beginning: 'per singulos gradus meos pronunciabo eum'.
f. 28r: Excerpts from St Jerome and Basil (b. c. 330, d. 379), bishop of Caesarea.
f. 28r: A moral verse, beginning: 'Cur, homo, qui cinis es per avariciam sepelies.'
f. 28r: A note on five different types of voices, beginning: 'Quinque sunt significaciones vocis.'
ff. 28v-44r: Theological sentences excerpted from various authors, beginning: 'Quisquis ad divinam leccionem erudiendus accesserit'; an excerpt from Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141), Didascalicon (Didactic Manual).
ff. 44v-45r: A charm against infirmities, beginning with an apocryphal miracle of Christ healing St Peter’s tooth-ache: ‘Sanctus petrus super marmoream petram sedebat manus suas ad maxillam tenebat desuper perveniens dominus dixit'; two marginal notes comment that the narrative is apocryphal and false: ‘apocrifum est’ and ‘item falsum’.
ff. 45r-46r: A scholastic treatise on the Trinity and virtues, beginning: 'Innascibilitas, proprietas, personalitas, filiacio, processio, spiracio'.
f. 46v: A tract on the Psalm 134:7: ‘Qui producit ventos de thesauris suis’.
f. 47r: A tract on grammar, beginning: ‘Plurimam oportet habeat dictator intelligenciam’.
f. 47v: Moral sentences, beginning: ‘Mel et lac sub li[n]gua sponse’.
ff. 48r-143v: A collection of sermons for liturgical feasts of the Temporale and Sanctorale (St Michael and St Benedict); contains excerpts from the Enchiridion (Manual) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430) on ff. 81v-82r; and a sermon by Alain de Lille (b. c 1128, d. 1203) on f. 106v.
ff. 143r-145r: A hymn for St Alban, with music notation, beginning ‘Inter flores electorum’ (see Deeming, Songs in British Sources (2013), pp. 52-53 (no. 35)).
ff. 145r-147v: A hymn for St Gregory, with music notation, beginning ‘Dulci voce mente munda’ (see Deeming, Songs in British Sources (2013), pp. 54-55 (no. 36)).
ff. 148v-149v: A sermon on the words ‘'Cum venerit Paracletus’.
f. 149v: Salutations to Christ, beginning ‘Ave ihesu Christe fili virginis’.
ff. 150v-152r: A sermon on the words ‘Ascendit Josehp super currum Pharaonis,'
ff. 152v-153r: A hymn to the Holy Spirit, with music notation, beginning: ‘Veni, Sancte Spiritus’ (see Deeming, Songs in British Sources (2013), p. 56 (no. 37)).
ff. 153v-154r: Adam of Saint-Victor (d. 1146), part of the poem Lux iucunda lux insignis (Pleasing Light, Extraordinary Light) with bars without music notation added, imperfect at the beginning: ‘Consolator alme, veni, linguas rege, corda leni’.
ff. 154v-156r: A sermon on the words ‘Tellus ac ethra jubilent’.
ff. 156v-157v: A hymn on the Resurrection, with music notation, beginning: ‘Verbo, celum quo firmatur’ (see Deeming, Songs in British Sources (2013), pp. 57-58 (no. 38)).
f. 158v: A hymn to God, beginning: ‘Miserere mei, Deus, Quia miser, quia reus’.
ff. 158v-159r: Walter of Châtillon, poem on the wealth of the curia, beginning: ‘Missum sum in vineam circa horam nonam’.
ff. 159v-160r: Walter of Châtillon, poem on the state of the world, beginning: ‘Multiformis hominum fraus et injusticia’.
ff. 160r-160v: Poem on generosity in captivity, beginning: 'Captivata largitas longe relegatur’.
f. 160v: A poem on vain promises, beginning: ‘Allicit interdum sermo faleratus egentem’.
f. 160v: A poem from the verse compendium De hominum deificatione [Peri ton anthropontheopiisis] (On the Deification of man), beginning: ‘'Uxor, villa, boves, cenam clausere vocatis.'
ff. 160v-161r: A poem on clerical parsimony, beginning: ‘Stulti cum prudentibus tendunt ad coronam’.
ff. 161r-161v: A poem on the state of the world, beginning: 'Ut Judeis hostia sunt carnes suille’.
ff. 161v-162r: A poem on the corruption of the Church, beginning: ‘Pilatatur impii regnum Pharaonis’.
ff. 162v-178r: Philippe de Thaon, Comput, beginning: 'Philippe de Thaun / Ad fait une raisun / Pur pruveires garnir / De la lei maintenir’.
f. 178v: A sermon on Psalm 92:12, imperfect, beginning: 'Justus ut palma florebit'.
ff. 179r-180r: Visio Karoli Grossi (Vision of Charles the Fat), beginning 'Anno DCCC. LXXXVI, Karolus Tercius, Imperator, filius Lodwici, Regis Noricolane Baiovariorum'.
ff. 181r-181v: Office for the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘In honore gloriose virginis Marie Pater noster’.
ff. 182r-184r: A tract on law and virtues, beginning: 'Inter summas philosophie species, Ars boni et equi tum propter dignitatem.' [the same tract as a prologue to the juridical lexicon Epitome exactis regibus (Summary of Expelled Kings) in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.7.40, ff. 156r-157v; a manuscript from the late 12th or early 13th century that was owned by an unidentified English house of Augustinian canons].
ff. 184r-189v: Anonymous, De Magistratibus Romanis (On Roman beginning: 'Exactis a Romana civitate regibus constituti duo consules’.
The manuscript contains a number of later additions:
f. 1r: Salve Regina, imperfect, ‘[...] terge sordes peccatorum dona nobis beatorum [...]’, added in the 14th or 15th century.
[ff. 3v, [3a] recto, [3a] verso, 4r, 7v, 82v, 112v, 113r, 139v, 148r, 150r, 158r, and 180v are blank].
Decoration:
1 two-panel miniature of a dream-vision of the prophet Daniel (below: Daniel sleeping; above: A man carried by angels is crowned king by God) in blue, green and red, in a green frame. 1 large historiated initial ‘B’ in blue with a miniature in blue, green and red in each compartment, foliate decoration and in a frame with a red ground. The subjects of the miniatures is as follows: above, Daniel seated, looking towards heaven, and holding a scroll; below, a monk, seated and writing. Large, medium and small initials in blue, purple or red, often with with penwork decoration in the other colour. Small (one-line) initials highlighted in red. Display script (rustic capitals) in brown ink. Rubrics in red. Decorated paraphs in red ink. Decorated run-over symbols in brown ink (a human head on f. 3r, 110r, 121v, 122r; a flower on f. 109r). Line-fillers in red. Bar lines for music notation in red on ff. 152v-154r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002113931 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 1580 : Collection of sermons, moral and theological sentences, poems, hymns with monophonic and polyphonic music, prayers, tracts on… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[1581]/040-002113931
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 120 mm (text space: 130 x 95 mm; ff. 24r-26r in 2 columns; ff. 158v-178r in 2-3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 189 ( + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between f. 3 and f. 4 (f. [3a]); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 49 and f. 50; and 1 between f. 136 and f. 137; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: Protogothic (written above the top line).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; Gold-tooled brown half leather binding with Sloane’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘SERMONES ETC.’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
An unidentified monastery in England: the presence of a D clef in the music notation suggests an English origin (see Hughes, Catalogue, III (1965), p. 392); contains a compilation by a Canterbury monk
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
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- Publications:
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The Latin Poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, ed. by Thomas Wright (London: Bowyer Nichols for the Camden Society, 1841), pp. 40, 151-52, 159, 237.
Thomas Wright, Popular Treatises on Science Written During the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Ango-Norman, and English (London: The Historical Society of Science, 1841), p. xi.
Paul Meyer, 'Bribes de littérature anglo-normande', Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Sprache und Literatur, 7 (1866), pp. 38-57 (pp. 40-42).
Catalogue of Sloane Manuscripts, 19 vols (London: British Museum, unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, 1873), I: Sloane 1421-1598, pp. 311-29 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Li Cumpoz Philipe de Thaün: Der Computus des Philipp von Thaun mit einer Einleitung über die Sprache des Autors, ed. by Eduard Mall (Strasbourg: Trübner, 1873), pp. 3-4 (as ‘S’).
John Romilly Allen, Norman Sculpture and the Mediaeval Bestiaries: From the Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1885, Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland before the Thirteenth Century, 3 (London: Whiting, 1887), p. 339.
Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi, ed. by Lloyd William Daly and Walther Suchier, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 24:1-2 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1939), Part II: Walter Suchier, Die Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi: Nebst einigen verwandten Texten, p. 164 (no. 70).
Richard William Hunt, ‘Studies on Priscian in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, 1 (1943), 194-231 (p. 208 n. 1) [for bibliography on Samson of Canterbury].
Pierre Legendre, 'Chronique: droit romain médiéval', Revue historique de droit français et étranger, 42 (1964), 136-38 (p. 137 no. 5).
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), III (1965), p. 392.
Marie-Thérèse d' Alverny, Alain de Lille: textes inédits, Etudes de philosophie médiévale, 52 (Paris: Vrin, 1965), p. 135 [on f. 106v].
Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music: 11th-Early 14th Century, ed. by Gilbert Reaney, Répertoire International Musicales, B/IV/1 (Munich: Henle, 1969), pp. 511-12.
Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, 11 vols (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969-2010), II.1 (1972): Grossbritannien und Irland: Werkverzeichnis, ed. by Franz Römer, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission zur Herausgabe des Corpus der Lateinischen Kirchenväter, 3, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 281, p. 141 [on ff. 81v-82r].
Margaret Gibson, Lanfranc of Bec (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), p. 41 n. 4 [on f. 16r].
Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 121.
Philippe de Thaon: Comput (MS BL Cotton Nero A.V), ed. by Ian Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Plain Texts Series, 2 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1984).
Stephen Gersh, ‘Anselm of Canterbury’, in A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy, ed. by Peter Dronke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 255-78 (p. 256) [on f. 16r].
Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 3 (London: Anglo Norman Text Society, 1999), pp. 190-91 (no. 346) [Comput].
A. G. Rigg, A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066−1422 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 238 (no. 5).
Stephen Gersh, Reading Plato, Tracing Plato: From Ancient Commentary to Medieval Reception (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), p. 152 [on f. 16r].
Don C. Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), p. 189 n. 39 [on the charm on ff. 44v-45r].
Bryan Gillingham, Medieval Polyphonic Sequences: An Anthology, Musciological Studies, 45 (Ottowa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2006), p. xxiii.
Peter M. Lefferts, 'Sources of Thirteenth-Century English Polyphony: Catalogue with Descriptions', Faculty Publications: School of Music, 45 (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2012) http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=musicfacpub [accessed 3 September 2018].
Helen Deeming, Songs in British Sources c. 1150-1300, Musica Britannica, 95 (London, Stainer and Bell, 2013), pp. lvii (fig. 1), 52-58 (nos 35-38).
William Summers and Peter M. Lefferts, English Thirteenth-Century Polyphony: A Facsimile Edition, Early English Church Music, 57 (London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy, 2016), p. 23, pls 95-97.
Thomas O’Donnell, ‘The Gloss to Philippe de Thaon’s Comput and the French of England’s Beginnings’, in The French of Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed. by Thelma Fenster and Carolyn P. Collette (Cambridge: Brewer, 2017), pp. 13-37 (p. 13 n. 3).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.