Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 1003

Mus. 1003

Manuscript. Keyboard book in four layers, copied in England (and probably in Oxford) during the second half of the 17th century and the first decade of the 18th century. Copyists include Henry Bowman, Charles Morgan, Richard Goodson Sr and Richard Goodson Jr. This is one of the many manuscript sources of keyboard music at Christ Church. Loose within the volume is Mus. 1003a, which is apparently unrelated to Mus. 1003 itself.

Layer 1 (ff 1-12r; items 1-14 in the inventory below): unidentified copyist working probably in the third quarter of the 17th century. The contents of this layer were largely transferred from another keyboard book now at Christ Church, Mus. 1113, which was itself copied probably in the 1620s, and was apparently owned by the Oxford-based keyboard player William Ellis (1620-c.1679; organist of St John's College, Oxford from 1639 to 1646).
Layers 2 and 3 (items 15-48 and 55-6) were formerly thought to have been copied solely by Henry Bowman, but have recently been interpreted by Andrew Woolley as being the work jointly of Bowman and Charles Morgan, the latter perhaps modelling his notation upon Bowman's, and apparently using staves or pages that Bowman had left blank. The following description of Layers 2 and 3 draws upon Woolley, 'English Keyboard Sources and their Contexts, c. 1660-1720' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2008), Chapter 6: 'Collecting Keyboard Music'.
Layer 2: items 16-19, 21-9, 32 and 35-6. Copied by Henry Bowman, presumably during the period 1664-77, since Bowman refers to Christopher Gibbons as 'Dr' (item 42; Gibbons's Oxford D.Mus. was conferred in 1664), and to John Blow as 'Mr' (Blow's Lambeth D.Mus. was conferred in 1677). For a list of other items at Christ Church associated with Henry Bowman, see the entry for Mus. 20.
Layer 3: items 15, 20, 30-31, 33-4, 37-48 and 55-6; also the last 3 bars of item 14. Copied by Charles Morgan, at least partly before 1677 (on the grounds that items 37-40 are again ascribed to 'Mr Blow'). For further information about Charles Morgan, see the section on Provenance below.
Layer 4 (inside upper and lower covers; also items 49-54): copied and/or used by members of the Goodson family. Tables of rudiments on the inside upper and lower covers were probably copied by Richard Goodson Sr; they imply that Mus. 1003 was used by him for pedagogy. Items 49-54 appear to have been copied by Richard Goodson Jr, possibly at a young age. An annotation on the last page (f. 52v), which has been interpreted as 'Anna Goodson', may refer to another member of the Goodson family; see Bailey 2003 (in Bibliography below), p. 95. This is one of the many music manuscripts at Christ Church copied wholly or partly by Richard Goodson Sr.

Comments on individual pieces:

Item 14: the ending of this piece was probably originally copied on the first of five leaves that have been excised between ff. 11 and 12 (and are now represented by stubs). The ending was then recopied on f. 12r by Charles Morgan, who was presumably responsible for making the excisions.
Item 18 in the inventory below: a related version of this work was published in Melothesia (RISM 1673/6): see Bailey 2003, p. 95.
Item 19 is evidently a rejected draft for item 21, implying that the piece was composed by Bowman himself. Some of the other unattributed pieces in Layer 2 may therefore also be by him.
Items 20, 30-31, 44 and 47: for outline information about printed sources for these originally vocal works, see English Song-Books 1651-1702: A Bibliography, ed. Cyrus Lawrence Day and Eleanore Boswell Murrie (London, 1940).
Item 49 ('Vigo Minuit'): the title 'may refer to the victory of the Duke of Ormonde at Vigo Bay on 12 October 1702' (Woolley, p. 133, fn. 3).
Items 55-6 are copied at the rear with the volume inverted.

In the inventory below, numbers in the second column were added in pencil by an unidentified hand probably in the 19th century; they are clearly visible in the standard microfilm of Mus.1003.

Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
The first column gives the modern numbering of the pieces; the second shows numbering used by the copyist(s).

1			Toccata (= Mus. 1113/1)	f. 1^r
2	2		Capriccio/canzona (= Mus. 1113/3)	ff. 1^v-2^r
3			Courante francise (= Mus. 1113/4)	f. 2^r
4		Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck	Hexachord fantasia (closing section only; = Mus. 1113/86)	ff. 2^v-3^r
5	3	Orlando Gibbons	Alman (MB 20 no. 34; = Mus. 1113/90)	f. 3^r
6	4	John Bull	Ionic alman (MB 19 no. 110; = Mus. 1113/78)	f. 3^v
7	5	John Bull	Germain's alman (MB 19 no. 94; = Mus. 1113/89)	f. 4^r
8	6		Courant Cromatique (= Mus. 1113/101)	f. 4^v
9	7	John Bull	Alman (MB 19 no. 115; = Mus. 1113/106)	f. 5^r
10	8	Peter Philips	Almande (MB 75 no. 14; = Mus. 1113/113)	ff. 5^v-6^v
11	9	John Bull	Alman fantasia (Meridian) (MB 19 no. 134; = Mus. 1113/110)	f. 7^r
12	10		Toccata (= Mus. 1113/25)	ff. 7^v-8^r
13	11	Girolamo Frescobaldi	Partite 12 sopra l'aria di Ruggiero (Pidoux iii/60; = Mus. 1113/54)	ff. 8^v-11^r
14	12		Unidentified keyboard work in a minor	ff. 11^v-12^r
15	13		The Vicechancellor	f. 12^r
16	14		Allemande	f. 12^v
17			Saraband	ff. 12^v-13^r
18	15	William Thatcher	Air	f. 13^v
19		Henry Bowman?	Jigg (incomplete sketch for no. 21 below)	f. 14^r
20		Henry Aldrich	O the bonny Christ Church bells	f. 14^r
21	16	Henry Bowman?	Jigg (reworking of no. 19 above)	ff. 14^v-15^r
22	17		Saraband	f. 15^r
23	18	William Lawes	Air (The golden grove; VdGS 361)	f. 15^v
24	19	William Lawes	Corant (The golden grove; VdGS 363)	f. 16^r
25	20	William Lawes?	Saraband	f. 16^v
26	21		Air	f. 17^r
27	22	Robert Smith	Jigg	f. 17^v
28	23		Jigg	f. 18^r
29	24		Ground and 3 variations	ff. 18^v-19^r
30	25	Matthew Locke	Ne'er trouble thyself at the times	ff. 19^v-20^r
31	26	John Wilson	In a season all oppressed	f. 20^r
32	27		Ground and variation	ff. 20^v-21^r
33	28		Jigg	f. 21^v
34	29	Robert? Smith	Air	f. 22^r
35	30	John Roberts (i)?	Saraband	f. 22^v
36	31	John Banister (i)	Saraband	f. 23^r
37	32	John Blow	Saraband (MB 73 no. 36; = Mus. 598/9)	ff. 23^v-24^r
38	33	John Blow	Gavott (MB 73 no. 37)	ff. 24^v-25^r
39		John Blow	Gavott (MB 73 no. 38)	f. 25^r
40	34	John Blow	Jigg (MB 73 no. 39)	f. 25^v
41	35	Robert? Smith	Air	f. 25^v
42	36	Christopher Gibbons	Saraband (CEKM 18(rev) no. 9)	f. 26^r
43	37	John Blow	Prelude (MB 73 no. 56; opening only)	ff. 26^v-27^r
44	38	Henry Lawes?	Con bel sigillo di segretezza	f. 28^r
45	39		Air	f. 28^v
46	40	Jeremy Savile	Here's a health unto his majesty (keyboard reduction; no words)	f. 29^r
47	41	William Lawes	O, my Clarissa, thou cruel fair	f. 29^r
48	42		Air	f. 29^v
49	43		Vigo minuet	f. 30^r
50	44	Henry Purcell	We, the spirits of the air (from 'The Indian Queen'; Z.630(17bc)), here texted as 'Happy songster of the Spring'	f. 30^v
51	45		Minuet (with fingering)	f. 31^r
52	46		Air (with fingering)	f. 31^v
53		Henry Purcell	Cibell/Trumpet tune (Z.T678; opening only)	ff. 31^v-32^r
54			fragments	ff. 32^v-33^r
55		Giovanni Battista Draghi	Alman (= Mus. 1177, no. 38)	f. 52^v
56		Giovanni Battista Draghi	Corant (opening only; = Mus. 1177, no. 39)	f. 52^r

Oblong format, 285 x 205 mm. Structure: 52 surviving leaves (without endleaves), foliated in modern pencil. Collation not fully ascertained because of extensive excisions, but conjecturally:

A8 (ff. 1-8);
B10 (of which leaves B1, B4 and B6-10 have been excised; B2-3 = ff. 9-10, B5 = f. 11);
C12 (of which leaves C2, C4, C10 and C12 have been excised; the remaining eight leaves are ff. 12-19);
D8 (ff. 20-27);
E8 (ff. 28-35);
F6 (ff. 36-41);
G8 (of which probably G8 has been excised; G1-7 = ff. 42-8);
probably H6 (of which H1 and H4 are excised; H2-3 = ff. 49-50, H5-6 = ff. 51-2).

The inside lower cover is foliated '53'. Unused ruled staves on ff. 27v and 33v-51r. Mid 17th-century covers of thick white card. Leaves bearing tables of the rudiments of music theory and notation, probably copied by Richard Goodson Sr, have been pasted to the inside upper and lower covers; those on the upper inside cover are now partly concealed beneath later pastedown material (a bookplate and a modern contents lists). The outside upper and lower covers have been annotated by Charles and John Morgan; see section of Provenance below. Bookplate 3 on the inside upper cover. 19th-century shelfmark: G14.

Provenance: earliest copyist/owner (Layer 1) not ascertained; then Henry Bowman (Layer 2). The subsequent history of Mus. 1003 is implied by the following annotations on the outside upper and lower covers: 'C. Morgan', 'John Morgan', 'Morgan His Booke', 'J. Nordin', and other pen-trials. The first of these apparently refers to Charles Morgan (c. 1660-1738), a chorister at Christ Church from 1670 to 1677, and a singing-man there until 1681; he subsequently moved to Magdalen College, where he sang as a lay clerk. (For further information about Morgan, see Robert Shay and Robert Thompson, Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources (Cambridge, 2000), p. 271.) Mus. 1003 passed finally to the Goodsons, who added Layer 4. Presumably it reached Christ Church as part of the Goodson bequest. However, Mus. 1003 is not explicitly listed in any of the 18th-century catalogues of the Christ Church music collections.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 34.

Select bibliography:

Virginia Brookes, British Keyboard Music to c.1660: Sources and Thematic Index (Oxford, 1996), pp. 89-90.
Candace Bailey, Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources (Warren, MI, 2003), pp. 93-6.
Andrew Woolley, 'English Keyboard Sources and their Contexts, c. 1660-1720' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2008), Chapter 6: 'Collecting Keyboard Music'.