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 G-H
G1 |
Archives 1717: 'Calvy's Cantica Sacra. <3 Books>'. Dowding adds: 'Venice 1629. Monteverde, Palatino, Donati con stromenti, Alessandro Grande, Turino &c.'. |
= Mus. 264-6; printed.
G2 |
Archives 1717: 'Haim's Sonata's in Ital: 3 Books'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
Together with the other partbook(s) at position K18 below = Mus. 97-9; printed.
G3 |
Archives 1717: 'Maringo's [later changed to 'Marenzio's] Madrigals for 5 Voices'. Dowding adds: 'Luca Marenzio's own. Antw. 1593. at the end of the Vol. is Chant musicale sur les nopces d'un Prince d'Espagne & de la Princese d'Autriche à 5. voc. de Jean de Castro. Cologne 1597'. |
= Mus. 301-5; printed; 2 tracts.
G4 |
Archives 1717: 'Dr. Holder on the Grounds of Musick', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. No entry in Dowding, which omits most works of music theory. |
Missing; the Christ Church copy has not been traced. See Hiscock,
'Lost Music', p. 127. Not the Christ Church copy now at shelfmark
OR.6.11.
G6 |
Archives 1717: 'Hiltons Catches &c. <wanting>'. Dowding: identical entry. |
Unidentified; possibly Mus. 1112(2); printed. The absence
of additional bibliographical information in Dowding, however,
may imply that this was a manuscript.
G7 |
Archives 1717: 'Morley's Fa-La's for five voices', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting', and 'vide K.8'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= a partbook from the set discussed at position K8 below.
G8 |
Archives 1717: 'Marenzio's Madrigals'. Dowding adds: 'Only the tenor [deleted;] <Perfect>'. |
= Mus 533-7 from the set Mus. 533-7, Mus. 283; printed; 4
tracts. The partbooks from this set appear initially to have
been distributed over several shelfmarks, and were subsequently
reunited (except for Mus. 283). The set may later have been
moved to position N.2.6 below.
G9 |
Archives 1717: 'Philip's Madrigals <6 Books> <v. I.23>'. Dowding adds: 'Antw. 1603'. |
= Mus. 538-43; printed.
G10 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of C[hur]ch Music in Lat[in]', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding adds: '&c. MS. in score'. Burney 1778 (f. 6v): 'MS. Scores of Motetti by Fusetti'. |
The material listed in Archives 1717 and Dowding has not been
identified. By Burney's time, position G10 was apparently filled
by the manuscripts previously at position M.4.3 below, which
are indeed 'MS. Scores of Motetti by Fusetti'; these must have
been moved from M.4.3, since that position was reallocated to
the material previously shelved at N.3.5.
G11 |
Archives 1717: 'Marenzio's madrigals <6 Books>'. Dowding adds: 'Only the Canto [deleted;] <Perfect>'. |
= Mus. 1041-6; printed; two tracts. Annotations to the entries
in Archives 1717 and Dowding show that the constituent partbooks
of this set were at first dispersed, and subsequently reunited.
G12 |
Archives 1717: 'Villanelli's Ital: Songs', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding adds: 'Imperfect'. |
= a partbook from the set discussed at position K12 below.
G13 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Ital: Music. <by Luca Marenzio>'. Dowding adds: 'Luca Marenzio 5 books delle Vilanelle & Canzonette alla Napolitana. à 3. Antw. 1610', annotated by Havergal: 'G.13 Marenzio's 5v: Madrigals Books I-V together 1609'. |
= Mus. 1063-5; printed. Subsequently moved to position I20;
position G13 was then allocated to Mus. 1047-51 (formerly
at position G27 below).
G14 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Madrigals in Ital'. Dowding adds: 'à 5. Antw. 1610. Novi Frutti Musicali'. |
= Mus. 258-62; printed.
G15 |
Archives 1717: 'Metru's fancies in two parts &c'. Dowding adds: 'Paris. 1642', annotated by Havergal: '1 part wanting'. |
= Mus. 335; printed.
G16 |
Archives 1717: 'Strozzii Musica concertata'. Dowding adds: 'à 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. parts. with Instrumts in honore della beatissima Vergine. Venice 1630'. |
= Mus. 179-82; printed.
G17 |
Archives 1717: 'Playford's Musical Companion 2nd Part'. No entry in Dowding, which omits most works of music theory. |
= Mus. 224; printed.
G18 |
Archives 1717: 'Pallavicino sacrae Dei Laudes'. Dowding adds: 'for 8. one for 12 & 2 for 16. voices all sorts of Instrumts di Benedetto Palavicino. Ven. 1605'. |
= Mus. 190-8; printed.
G19 |
Archives 1717: 'Couroys [later changed to 'Caurrois'] Musical Miscellanies <6 Books>'. Dowding adds 'Imperfect' <later hand deletes 'Imperfect', and adds: 6 Books. Paris. 1610'>. |
= Mus. 592-7; printed; two tracts. The constituent partbooks
of this set were initially dispersed over several shelfmarks,
and subsequently reunited.
G20 |
Archives 1717: 'Whithorn's Songs. <4 Books>'. Dowding: equivalent entry; Havergal has added '1 part wanting'. |
= Mus. 342-5; printed.
G21 |
Archives 1717: 'Holborn's Pavans, Galliards, &c'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 231-5; printed.
G22 |
Archives 1717: 'Another piece of Courois. <v. G. 19>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= a partbook from the set discussed at position G19 above.
G23 |
Archives 1717: 'A Collection of Ital: Music. <Ferabosco>'. Dowding adds: 'Cantus d'il Ferabosco il primo Libro de' Madrigali à 4 voc. Venice 1542'. |
= Mus. 297-300; printed.
G24 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies of 3. 4. & 5. pts. <Signior Diomede, Mason &c>'. Dowding: 'Diomede, Francesco Mason, Claudio Coreggio, Ciprian de Rore. M.S. con stromenti'. |
= Mus. 372-6; manuscript.
G25 |
Archives 1717: 'Florida Verba a celeberrimis autoribus, Marsatio & caeteris. <Vide F. 15>'. Dowding adds: 'Antw. 1661. only 1. Vol'. |
= a partbook from the set discussed at position F15 above.
G26 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Fancies for 3 Voices'. Dowding adds: 'Tis for 4 voices with Instrumts. M.S. Lupo. Gibbons. Jeffries'. |
= Mus. 459-62; manuscript.
G27 |
Archives 1717: 'Marengio's madrigals for 5 Voices'. Dowding adds: '1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. & 5th. Books Antw. 1609'. |
= Mus. 1047-51; printed. Subsequently moved to position G13
above.
G28 |
Archives 1717: 'The Mass set to Music. <by Strozzi>. Dowding adds: 'Messe à 5. 6. 8 voc. Berrardo Strozzi. opera 7ma. Venice 1626'. |
= Mus. 183-9; printed.
G29 |
Archives 1717: 'Monteverde's 5 parts <v. I.30> <Duplicate>'. Dowding adds: 'Madrigali. Antw. 1615', annotated by Hind (on a new line): 'Ditto'. |
This entry, like the one at position I30 below, shows signs of
emendation and the transfer of books from one location to another.
The sequence of events cannot be reconstructed with certainty,
but it involves four partbook sets, all of them containing or
including 1615 Phalèse editions of Monteverdi's madrigals,
as follows:
- Mus. 267-72: a complete set of Book 3.
- Mus. 273-8: a complete set of Book 4.
- Mus. 283}: 4 tracts; the Basso Continuo part from the set otherwise
at position G8. The set is now Mus. 533-7 / Mus. 283.
- Mus. 581-5: an incomplete set of Book 4, wanting the Quinto
partbook.
G30 |
Archives 1717: 'A [deleted: 'Collection of'] Set of C[hur]ch Music in Lat[in]. <by Stef. Fabbri>'. Dowding adds: 'Salmi Concertati à 5. Stefano Fabri. Rome 1660'. |
= Mus. 174-8; printed.
G31 |
Archives 1717: 'A vol: of Ital: Music', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding adds: 'Rules exemplified by Canons &c. Napoli. 1609'. |
Missing. Presumably a copy of Regole di musica di Rocco Rodio
(Naples, 1609); the Christ Church copy has not been traced.
G32 |
Archives 1717: 'Anselm's Madrigals'. Dowding adds: 'Only the Canto 2do. Venice 1624'. |
= Mus. 257; printed.
H1 |
Archives 1717: 'Fancies <by T. Lupo. J. Ward. J. Coprario. &c>'. Dowding adds: 'Instrumental MS. in score Coperario Ward &c'. |
= Mus. 44; manuscript.
H2 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Anthems in Lat[in]: by R. Deering. <3 books>'. Dowding adds: 'MS. in 4 parts'. |
= Mus. 747-9; manuscript.
H3 |
Archives 1717: 'Wilson's Catches'. Dowding: identical entry. |
= Mus. 434; manuscript.
H4 |
Archives 1717: 'Ferary's Miscellanies of Musick'. Dowding adds: 'Soloes'. Burney 1778 (f. 5v): 'Musiche varie a Voce Sola del Sig. Bened. Ferrari da Reggio. in Ven. 1633. Cantate &c'. |
= Mus. 863; printed.
H5 |
Archives 1717: 'A Set of Lat. Services', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: 'Mass in [erasure] & all the parts both vocal & instrumental wrote out & tied together. Borri'. |
= Mus. 1162-71, and probably also Mus. 1085-1108; manuscript.
Both items were subsequently listed by Hind at position D23.
H6 |
Archives 1717: 'd'India's Music for 2 Voices'. Dowding adds: 'Venice 1615'. |
= Mus. 84; printed.
H7 |
Archives 1717: 'A vol: of It[alian]: Music. <Di Don Ludov. Beretta>'. Dowding adds: 'Instrumental à 4 & 8. di Ludovico Beretta Bresciano. Milan 1604'. |
= Mus. 866; printed.
H8 |
Archives 1717: 'Coxima's Sonatas', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: 'Coæima's Sonatas / Soloes. London 1702'. |
Unidentified.
H9 |
Archives 1717: 'Porters Mottets. <3 Books>'. Dowding adds: 'Lond. 1657'. |
= Mus. 818-20; printed.
H10 |
Archives 1717: 'Bassani Harmonia festiva'. Dowding adds: '13th Opera of Mottets. Lond'. |
= Mus. 837; printed.
H11 |
Archives 1717: 'A Latin Hymn'; entry then deleted, and relaced by: 'Mottetti di Signr Bassani'. Dowding: 'Latin Hymn. / à 2. Carissimi. MS.'; 'Carissimi' then deleted, and replaced with 'Bassani'. |
Manuscript. The original entry ('A Latin Hymn') refers to the
setting of 'Non turbetur' tentatively attributed to Carissimi,
performing parts for which are now distributed between two items:
Mus. 688 (sheets e-f); and Mus. 763 (original wrappers
and p. 54). The annotation ('Mottetti di Signr Bassani') refers
to an unrelated set of performing parts for motets by Bassani,
now partly enclosed in Mus. 763, and otherwise at the following
positions: Mus. 689, Mus. 690, and Mus. 1154, tracts (C),
(D), (E), (F) and (F*). Presumably the Bassani material was
kept within the wrappers of the Carissimi motet. An Aldrich
provenance for both sets of parts seems likely.
H12 |
Archives 1717: 'Coprario's Songs of Mourning <on the Death of P[rince]. Henry>'. Dowding adds: 'Lond. 1613'. Still listed by Malchair in 1787, but absent from Havergal's 1846 catalogue of the printed music at Christ Church. |
Missing since the 1st half of the19th century; now London, British
Library, K.2.g.8 (see Hiscock, 'Lost Music', p. 127; the Christ
Church shelfmark has not been removed).
H13 |
Archives 1717: 'Dowland's first book of songs <[deletes 'first book of';] 2 Books>'. Dowding adds: 'Lond. 1613'. |
As originally entered in Archives 1717, this is Mus. 834;
printed. Evidently the item at H16 below was subsequently also
moved to this position.
H14 |
Archives 1717: 'Purcell's Te-Deum & Jubilate for St Cecilia's day. 1694', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
Missing; the Christ Church copy has not been traced. Not the
copy at Mus. 794, which derives from the Goodson bequest.
H15 |
Archives 1717: 'Dr Crayghtons Service'. Dowding adds: 'MS'. |
= Mus. 760; manuscript.
H16 |
Archives 1717: 'Dowland's Second Book of Songs. <v[ide] 13>'. Dowding adds: 'Lond. 1600', annotated by Havergal: 'missing 1845'. |
Not the item at H13 above; missing since the early 19th century.
Printed, in 5 tracts; the original contents are listed in Malchair
1787, f. 19, as follows:
- John Dowland, The second booke of songs (1600); now London,
British Library, [shelfmark] = RISM D 3483; STC 7095.
- Thomas Campion, The third and fourth booke of ayres (n.d.,
1617?); now London, British Library, [shelfmark] = RISM C 627;
STC 4548.
- William Corkine, Ayres, to sing and play (1610); now
London, British Library, [shelfmark] = RISM C3936; STC 5768.
- John Danyel, Songs for the lute (1606); now London, British
Library, [shelfmark] = RISM D 906; STC 6268.
- John Dowland, A pilgrimes solace (1612); now London,
British Library, [shelfmark] = RISM D 3486; STC 7098.
The volume was known to Hiscock ('Lost Music', p. 127), but only
by its uppermost tract, which he tentatively identifies as London,
British Library, K.2.i.5(2) (the Christ Church shelfmark is not
visible).
H17 |
Archives 1717: 'Miserere a 2 viol: 1 alt &c'. Dowding adds: 'Rosenmuller. MS'. |
= Mus. 687; manuscript.
H18 |
Archives 1717: 'Laudate a 3 Voci &c'. Dowding adds: 'MS. in score Gio. Batta Lunghi'. Burney 1778 (f. 5r) describes the item more accurately as 'Laudate a 6. J. B. Quadra'. |
= Mus. 1110; manuscript.
H19 |
Archives 1717: 'Partitura a 3 Voc: &c: di Angelo Vitali'. Dowding adds: '2. Canti & Basso & 5. Stromenti vizt. 2 Violin, 2. violetta & Violone. The Confitebor M.S. in score'. |
= Mus. 765; manuscript.
H20 |
Archives 1717: 'Lat[in]: Hymns. <Di J. Rosen Muller>'. Dowding adds: 'Miserere in score 3. voc. 2 violin & Organ. Rosenmuller. MS'. |
= Mus. 764; manuscript.
H21 |
Archives 1717: 'D'eve's Genius Musicus'. Dowding adds: 'à 2. 3. 4. 5. voc. cum Instrumentis. Alphonso d'Eve. printed by Etienne Roger. <11 books>'. |
= Mus. 841-51; printed.
H22 |
Archives 1717: 'Bassano's Fancies'. Dowding adds: 'MS. for 5 Instrumts'. |
= Mus. 716-20; manuscript.
H23 |
Archives 1717: 'Dr Blows Morning Service'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 780; manuscript.
H24 |
Archives 1717: 'Di Castro's Hymns'. Dowding adds: 'à 3. Gio. di Castro. Morley. Nanino. MS'. |
= Mus. 739,741,743; manuscript.
H25 |
Archives 1717: 'Rosseter's book of airs'. Dowding adds: 'Lond. 1601'; annotated by Havergal as being 'missing'. Burney 1778 (ff. 4v-5r): 'A Booke of Ayres, set foorth to be song to the Lute, Orpharion, & Base Violl, by Phi;. Rosseter Lutenist. printed by Peter Shove by the assent of Thos. Morley'. Also listen by Malchair (f. 19r). |
Missing since the first half of the 19th century; probably the
copy now London, British Library, K.2.i.3 (see Hiscock, 'Lost
Music', p. 128; the Christ Church shelfmark is not present).
H26 |
Archives 1717: 'Patta's Mottets & Madrigals'. Dowding adds: 'Serafino Patta. Solo. Venice 1614'. |
= Mus. 867; printed.
H27 |
Archives 1717: 'Books of Songs'. Dowding adds: 'Printed. 2 3. 4 parts'. |
= Mus. 868; printed.
H28 |
Archives 1717: 'Book of Services. <J. Church. MS. in Score>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 627; manuscript.
H29 |
Archives 1717: 'Mr Wm Laws great Consort. <6 Books>'. Dowding: '6 Sets of Music in 6 parts. MS'. |
= Mus. 391-6; manuscript.
H30 |
Archives 1717: 'Faravosco's fancies'. Dowding: 'Ferabosco's Fancies'. Not identifiable in the catalogues by Burney or Malchair. |
Probably = Mus 1004; manuscript.
H31 |
Archives 1717: 'Cantica Sacra by Dering and Gibbons'. Dowding adds: 'Lond. 1662'. |
= Mus. 816 from Mus. 813-16; printed, with manuscript additions.
For the other three partbooks, see the entry for position B14
above.
H32 |
Archives 1717: 'Mr Berchensa's Organ-part to Treble & Bass'. Dowding adds: 'MS'. |
= Mus. 781, from a three-partbook set now dispersed over two
call-numbers on account of differences of volume-size, Mus. 781, Mus. 1016-17; manuscript. No mention is made of the two
accompanying partbooks from this set (Mus. 1016-17), which are
much smaller in size, and which may initially have been kept
loose within Mus. 781. Their first entry into the catalogues
was made by Hind (in Dowding), at position M.4.34.
H33 |
Archives 1717: 'A Vol: of It[alian]: Music', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding adds: 'Luigi's Cantatas. MS'. Not identifiable in the catalogues by Burney or Malchair. |
Not identified. Possibly rebound in the late 18th century, and
given a new shelf location.
H34 |
Archives 1717: 'Croft's Sonata's. <2 Books>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 681-2; printed.
H35 |
Archives 1717: 'Orlando for the double Basse'. Dowding: equivalent entry. Burney 1778 (f. 4): 'MS. Fantasias a 4. Old masters'. |
= Mus. 732-5; manuscript.
H36 |
Archives 1717: 'Andreas Ornithoparcas Introduction to the Art of Singing <by Dowland>'. No entry in Dowding, which omits most works of music theory. |
= Mus. 833; printed.
H37 |
Archives 1717: 'Miserere Mei Deus a Lat[in]: Hymn'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 784; manuscript.
H38 |
Archives 1717: 'Jeptha's Vow set to Music', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding adds: 'MS. 6. parts in Score'. |
= Mus. 37 (pp. 1-24). Its placement within a late 18th-century
guardbook (and therefore its removal to a different location)
explains the annotation 'wanting'.
H39 |
Archives 1717: 'L[or]d grant the Queen a long life an Anthem'. Dowding adds: 'MS. 5 voices'. |
= Mus. 783; manuscript.
H40 |
Archives 1717: 'Advice to a Composer a Song: the wds by J. Talbot the Music by R. Orme'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 1152; manuscript.
H41 |
Archives 1717: 'Mr Purcel's My song &c Psalm 89th'. Dowding: equivalent entry. Malchair explicitly describes this item as being a manuscript. |
= Mus. 766; manuscript.
H42 |
Archives 1717: 'Songs, & Instrumental Music', annotated by a later hand as being 'wanting'. Dowding: identical entry. |
= Mus. 690, probably Mus. 689, and possibly further material.
This may have been an unbound collection of miscellaneous sheets.
Mus. 689 and 690 originally belonged with materials that are
dispersed over several positions in Archives 1717 (and which
in the modern collection remain scattered over several call-numbers);
for details, see the entry for Mus. 763. The annotation 'wanting'
in Archives 1717 may reflect the redistribution of materials
from H42.
H43 |
Archives 1717: 'S. Iacomo Carissimi <MS. Fol: Dixit Dominus - Anima mea ->'. Dowding: 'A Compleat Mass with Instrumts of Carissimi'. |
= Mus. 55; manuscript.
H44 |
Archives 1717: 'A Vol: of Mr Purcel's Music. <Dioclesian>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 787; printed.
H45 |
Archives 1717: 'Laws's Psalms for one, two & three parts. <3 Books>'. Dowding: equivalent entry. |
= Mus. 768-70; manuscript.
H46 |
Archives 1717: 'Purcell's Sonata's'; entry subsequently deleted. Dowding: 'Purcell's Sonatas [entry deleted] / A Mass by Andrea Pevernaggio MS. in score 6 parts'. Not identifiable in the catalogues by Burney or Malchair. |
The original entry ('Purcell's Sonata's') is too vague to be
of any help in identifying this item, and none of the most likely
contenders bears the shelfmark H46. The replacement entry ('A
Mass by Andrea Pevernaggio MS. in score 6 parts') is also untraced;
it may have been the exemplar for Henry Needler's copy, which
is now London, British Library, MS Add. 5037.
H47 |
Archives 1717: ' - [i.e. Purcell's] Songs &c'; this entry was subsequently deleted. Dowding: 'Songs &c.' |
Not identified. Position H47 was subsequently refilled by Hind
with Mus. 809-12, which is itself not necessarily of Aldrich
provenance.
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