THE ALDRICH BEQUEST:
an annotated transcription of two 18th-century shelf-lists,
Archives 1717 and 'Dowding'
To place the following comments in context, see the General introduction to this page.
SHELVES A-D
| A1 |
Archives 1717: 'Thomae Lud. a Victoria Abulensis Motecta festorum totius Anni cum communi Sanctorum'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 1; printed.
| A4 |
[Archives 1717: this position is occupied by a non-music item.] Dowding: 'Anthems & Songs with Instrumts... / M.S. in score by Purcel, Blow, Humphries &c'. |
= Mus. 628; manuscript.
| A5 |
[Archives 1717: this position is occupied by a non-music item.]. Dowding: 'Anthems / By Bull & Hooper M.S.'. |
Presumably a partbook from a dispersed set, since the entry exactly
matches that for B5 below, q.v.
| B5 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Anthems'. Dowding: 'By Bull & Hooper M.S.'. Burney's entry reads: 'Anthems & Hymns by Hooper, Wilkinson, Amner, Tho' Mattocks, Robt. Jones, Weelkes, T. Lupo, Warde, W. Symmes, Ravenscroft, Forde, Bennet, &c, a large Collection. MS. 5 Books'. |
= Mus. 56-60; manuscript. This identification depends upon
Burney's entry.
| B8 |
Archives 1717: 'Verse Anthem in Score'. Dowding: 'Lock & Aldrich. Funeral Anthem'. |
= Mus. 12; manuscript.
| B9 |
Archives 1717: 'Dr John Blow's Musical Compositions<, or Amphion Anglicus>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 793; printed.
| B10 |
Archives 1717: 'Anthems', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: 'Latin Anthems / In score; no names or date'. |
Not identified; probably later moved to a different position.
| B11 |
Archives 1717: A Vol: of Sacred Music', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: 'For Voices & mostly with Instrumts'. |
Not identified; probably later moved to a different position.
| B12 |
Archives 1717: 'Italian Songs', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: identical entry. |
Not identified; probably later moved to a different position.
| B13 |
Archives 1717: 'A Pastoral <The Judgment of Paris> compos'd for the Musick prize, by D[anie]l Purcell'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 790; printed.
| B14 |
Archives 1717: 'Cantica Sacra by Dering, Gibbons, Rogers, Lock &c. <3 Books. Lond. 1662>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 813-16; printed. The B14 entry refers specifically
to three partbooks only, Mus. 813-15, one of which had earlier
been shelved at position K32 below. The set's fourth partbook,
Mus. 816, remained at position H31 below.
| B15 |
Archives 1717: 'Filmers French Court Airs'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 791; printed.
| C1 |
Archives 1717: 'A Vol: of Services & Anthems. <by John Golding of Windsor>'. Dowding: 'M.S. John Goldwin'. |
= Mus. 94; manuscript.
| C2 |
Archives 1717: 'Mr. Purcel's Services in B'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 38; manuscript.
| C3 |
Archives 1717: 'Mr Tallis' Services.' Dowding: 'Te Deum & Magnificat of Tallis, Dimittis of Bird. MS'. |
= Mus. 1002; manuscript.
| C4 |
Archives 1717: 'Instrumental Music'. Dowding: identical entry. |
= Mus. 432, Mus. 612-13; manuscript.
| C5 |
Archives 1717: 'Latin Anthems'. Dowding: 'A Mass for 5 Voices with Instrumts by Legrenzi'. |
= Mus. 1000; manuscript.
| C7 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies of 3 pts <v. D.4.>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= a partbook from the dispersed set discussed at position C20
below.
| C15 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies <5 Voc. Thomas Lupo>'. Dowding: 'Fancies'. |
| C16 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies <3 Voc. Ditto>'. Dowding: entry bracketed with C15. |
| C17 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies <4 Voc. Thos. Lupo &c>'. Dowding: entry bracketed with C15. |
= three partbooks from the dispersed set discussed at position
C20 below.
| C18 |
Archives 1717: 'Services compos'd by Dr Aldrich'. Dowding: no entry. |
= Mus. 19; manuscript.
| C20 |
Archives 1717: 'A Collection of Services'; entry subsequently deleted. Dowding: no entry. Probably = Mus. 6. Position C20 was later re-filled by Hind with 'Fancies of 6 parts by White, Ward, Phillips &c' = Mus. 423-8; Hind assembled this set from partbooks previously scattered across positions C7, C15-17 and D4, together with Mus. 427, which bears no shelfmark other than 'C20'. |
| D2 |
Archives 1717: 'Purcel's Sonatas'. Dowding: identical entry. |
Probably = Mus. 824-7 and Mus. 828-31; printed.
| D3 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Italian Music<, by Alessandro Striggio>'. Dowding: 'Ciccalameto di Donne di Alessandro Striggio in 7. parts'. |
= Mus. 1155-61; manuscript.
| D4 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies <v. C.7.>'. Dowding: 'Fancies of Coperario & Ferabosco. / The tenor part only'. |
= a partbook from the dispersed set discussed at position C20
above.
| D5 |
Archives 1717: 'Ptolemy's Harmonica Dr Wallis's Ed'. No entry in Dowding, which omits most works of music theory. |
= Mus. 441; printed.
| D13 |
Archives 1717: 'A Vol: of Italian Music'. Dowding: identical entry. |
= Mus. 435; manuscript.
| D14 |
Archives 1717: 'Theoria Musices Lat: MSS <v. D.15, 24>'. Dowding: 'Supposed to be by Dr. Aldrich'. |
= Folder B of Mus. 1187; manuscript.
| D15 |
Archives 1717: 'Several Tracts relating to the Grounds of Musick MSS <by Dr. Aldrich>'. No entry in Dowding, which omits most works of music theory. |
= Unspecified parts of Mus. 1187; manuscript.
| D16 |
Archives 1717: 'Mottets for two Voices by Walter Porter Ed:'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 821-3; printed.
| D17 |
Archives 1717: '1st Part of Mottets &c by Orlando Gibbons'; entry deleted, and annotated 'vide K. 38'. Dowding: '1st part of Mottets by Orlando Gibbons'. |
= a partbook from the dispersed set discussed at position K34-8
below.
| D18 |
Archives 1717: 'Mr Jeffreys Collection of Songs. / Dr Wilson's Psalterium Carolinum. / Porter's Mottets &c'. Dowding: 'Jefferies Collection of Songs, Porters Mottets &c. / Appears to be a good collection'. |
= Mus. 877-80; combination of manuscript and printed contents.
| D20 |
Archives 1717: 'Lat: & Ital: Songs for 5 Voices. MSS.' Dowding: 'The Lamentation of Jeremiah in latin without a name. Ferabosco &c'. |
= Mus. 463-7; manuscript.
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