Mus. 1119

Manuscript. Pocket-book apparently owned or used by William Hedges, a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral (admitted on 16 August 1729), whose name appears among pen-trials on f. 2r. Hedges's name also occurs in Mus. 527-30, Mus. 1024, in a list of choristers compiled c. 1730 by Richard Goodson Jr (Mus. 529, ff. 54v-55r).

The pieces listed in the inventory below are all represented by treble voice-parts. Items 1-4 are copied at what is now designated as the front of the volume, items 5-6 at the rear with the volume inverted. Other pages have been used for pen-trials and inconsequential musical jottings; these have not been catalogued. Comments on individual pieces:

• Item 1 was published with an attribution to 'B. R.' in John Playford's An introduction to the skill of musick, of which Christ Church has copies of the 7th edition of 1674 (Arch. Sup. A,6.2) and the15th edition of 1703 (Os.3.37). It is explicitly attributed to Rogers in The musical companion (RISM 1673/4).
• Item 3 is evidently a spoof based on the canon of the same title published in later editions of John Playford's An introduction to the skill of musick; see for instance the 15th edition of 1703 (Os.3.37), p. 171.
• Item 6 (Clarke): there is a copy of this anthem by Richard Goodson Sr in Mus. 23, item 41.

Oblong format, 200 x 105 mm. 36 leaves, foliated in pencil in July 2001. Collation not researched. Early 18th-century binding of mottled brown leather over boards; lower cover gold-tooled with fillets and small ornaments; the volume was rebacked and generally repaired in the first decade of the 20th century. No early bookplate. No 19th-century shelfmark.

Provenance: probably from the Goodson bequest, but not recorded in any of the 18th-century catalogues of the Christ Church music collections.

Not included in the standard microfilm series.