GB-PAa slate music fragments (Paisley Slate Fragments)

Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Scotland

piece of slate with music: 15th to early 16th century

Archive Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Scotland (GB-PAa)
Shelfmark slate music fragments (Paisley Slate Fragments)
Surface Slate
Numbering System None
Measurements 122 x 64 x 5.5mm and 103 x 122 x 7mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
Provenance
  • Scotland
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Two irregular fragments of slate bearing incised musical symbols. Slate 1 has two short passages in mensural notation. The shape of the surviving fragment suggests that these two short passages are both sections of a single voice in a polyphonic composition. The notational style is that of the mid-15th century; there is no text. Slate 2 is not related to slate 1 either physically or musically, but identical in execution and period. No text.

Margaret Bent, 2010. Description based on Elliot, 'Musical Slates'
Notation

black void mensural notation

Description based on Elliot, 'Musical Slates'
Foliation

recovered from Medieval drain, kept in Sacristy of Paisley Abbey

Description based on Elliot, 'Musical Slates'
Surface

slate

Description based on Elliot, 'Musical Slates'

fragment 1

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] untexted fragment - -

untexted fragment

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Appears on: [-]
Genres: fragment, textless
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
untexted fragment - [-]

Images © Renfrewshire Council

‡ denotes primary source study

Elliott, Kenneth. 2000. Musical Slates: The Paisley Abbey Fragments. The Monastery & Abbey of Paisley: Lectures from the Renfrewshire Local History Forum's Conference 11-12 September 1999, edited by Kenneth Elliott, 205-20. Renfrewshire: Renfrewshire Local History Forum.

Elliott, Kenneth. 1996. The Paisley Abbey fragments: two fifteenth-century Scottish musical slates.  Glasgow.

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Description based on Elliot, 'Musical Slates'

Monday, 23 January, 2017

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