Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 24-31

Mus. 24-31

Printed. Eight volumes.

Mus. 24-31
Garth, John, 1721-1810

The first fifty psalms. Set to music by Benedetto Marcello, patrizio Veneto, and adapted to the English version, by John Garth.
London: Printed for John Johnson, 1757
RISM A/I M426
Mus. 24: Vol. I; Mus. 25: Vol. II; Mus. 26: Vol. III; Mus. 27: Vol. IV; Mus. 28: Vol. V; Mus. 29: Vol. VI; Mus. 30: Vol. VII; Mus. 31: Vol. VIII.

Provenance: purchased by Christ Church, 1757-65. Details of the accumulation of this set are given in Christ Church, Library Records 16 (library accounts from 1712 onwards), where the volumes are reported to have been bought from 'Dr Dickens', presumably the subscriber 'The Reverend Dr. Dickens, Prebendary of Durham' (as listed in the vol. 1 list of subscribers). Entries in Library Records 16 are as follows:

f. 62v	vol. 1	acquired 1757	= Mus. 24
f. 65v	vol. 2	acquired 1758	= Mus. 25
f. 68v	vol. 3	acquired Feb1760	= Mus. 26
f. 68v	vol. 4	acquired May1760	= Mus. 27
f. 71v	vol. 5	acquired 1762	= Mus. 28
f. 72v	vol. 6	acquired 1762	= Mus. 29
f. 79v	vols 7-8	acquired 1765	= Mus. 30-31

Volumes 1-3 were initially shelved in the 'Archives' of the Old Library, together with music from the Aldrich bequest, and were given the shelfmarks H67-9. Following the removal of the college's collections to the New Library in c. 1763, the set was allocated a new single-number shelfmark, L13; this is written into vols. 1-6. Malchair mistakenly included the set in his 1787 catalogue of the Goodson bequest (on f. 7, as '8 Folio bound books Psalms of Marcello'), presumably because in the New Library they were shelved beside the Goodson books.

Upright format, 370 x 267 mm. C18th bindings of marbled paper over boards, quarter bound in brown leather, with insets of red leather on spines, tooled in gold: 'Marcello Vol. I [-8]'. Bookplate 1 in all 8 volumes. C19th shelfmarks: H.1.24-31.

Microfilms: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reels 1 and 2.
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