Christ Church Library music catalogue: Gibbs 12

Gibbs 12

A printed copy of the Book of Common Prayer (1634) and other printed material, interleaved with manuscript music for Contratenor Cantoris, copied and bound for use in the chapel of Peterhouse, Cambridge. One of a set of probably eight such partbook-volumes, of which the only other known survivor is Cambridge, Peterhouse, Perne Library O.6.29 (Medius Decani; digital images available online at DIAMM). Music copyist unidentified. The presence within the volume of pages of unused staves suggests that further expansion of the manuscript contents was envisaged.

Printed contents:

Gibbs 12(1)
The Booke of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments.
London: Imprinted by Robert Barker ... and by the assignes of John Bill, 1634

Gibbs 12(2)
Ad Mat. & Vesp. [Matins and Evensong in Latin]
[Cambridge?]: [1634?]
Inserted after sig. R3 of Gibbs 12(1).

Gibbs 12(3)
The forme and manner of making and consecrating bishops, priestes and deacons.
London: Imprinted by Robert Barker ... and by the assignes of John Bill, 1634

Manuscript contents:
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.

1	William Byrd	Third preces	f. 22^r
2	Thomas Tomkins	Preces	f. 22^r
3	Orlando Gibbons	First preces, with two alternative Glorias	ff. 22^r-v
4	William Smith	Preces	f. 22^v
5	Orlando Gibbons	Short Service: V	f. 26^r
6	Orlando Gibbons	Short Service: T/Bs]	ff. 29^r-v
7	William Byrd	Third responses	f. 32^r
8	Thomas Tomkins	Responses	f. 32^r
9	William Smith	Responses	f. 32^v
10	Orlando Gibbons	Short Service: M/N	ff. 35^r-v
11	Thomas Tallis	Litany (precentor's part)	f. 39^r
12	Thomas Tomkins	Litany	f. 39^v
13	Henry Molle	Litany 'for Dr Cosin' (= John Cosin, master of Peterhouse, 1635-40)	ff. 39^v-40^r
14	Thomas Tallis (spurious)	Litany	f. 40^v
15	William Byrd	Short Service: K	f. 129^r
16	Orlando Gibbons	Short Service: K	f. 129^r
17	Thomas Tallis	Short Service: K	f. 129^r
18	Richard Farrant	High Service: K	f. 129^r
19	Derrick	Kyrie	f. 129^r
20	Thomas Tomkins	First Service: K	f. 129^v
21	John Amner	Third Service: K	f. 129^v
22	William Child	Sharp Service in D: K	f. 129^v
23	Thomas Morley	First Service: K	f. 129^v
24	Mundy	Kyrie	f. 129^v
25	Orlando Gibbons	Short Service: C	f. 130^v
26	Edmund Hooper?	Sursum corda and Sanctus	f. 137^r
27	John Amner	Third Service: G	f. 140^v
28	Henry Molle	Pater de caelis (Litany; in Latin)	ff. 180^r-v
29	Henry Loosemore	Pater de caelis (Litany; in Latin)	ff. 180^v-181^r

Upright format, 300 x 190 mm. The interleaved portion of the volume has been foliated to f. 189 in modern pencil, in a sequence that includes both printed and manuscript leaves; the remainder of the volume is unfoliated. Unused ruled staves on ff. 23r-v, 26v, 30r-v, 41r-42v, 127r-v, 130r, 132r-v, 137v, 140r, 171r-172v, 181v and 188r-v. Front flyleaf inscribed 'Contratenor Cantoris' in 17th-century ink. 17th-century binding of dark brown leather over boards, gold-tooled on the upper and lower covers with the arms of Peterhouse, Cambridge, the latter enclosed within an oval panel bearing the words 'Collegium : Sancti : Petri : in : Academia : Cantabrigiae'; binding rebacked and generally repaired probably in the early 20th century by 'James H. Jackson / manufacturing / stationer, / Perth' (label pasted to inside lower cover). Inside upper cover: armorial bookplate of John George Home-Drummond of Abbots Grange (d. 1848).

Provenance: Peterhouse, Cambridge; John George Home-Drummond; Kenneth Gibbs (1856-1935), sometime Archdeacon of St. Albans, whose collection of liturgical texts was presented to Christ Church by his widow in 1946.

Microfilm: not included in the standard microfilm series.

Bibliography:

Dom Anselm Hughes, Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1953), 49-51.