Mus. 1120
Manuscript. Pocketbook containing treble voice-parts and jottings,
evidently used by boy choristers during the second decade of
the 18th century, probably at Christ Church, Oxford; also jottings
by Richard Goodson Jr. Copying has taken place both from the
front of the volume (ff. 1-7), and from the rear with the volume
inverted (ff. 16-8). The following pieces are neatly copied:
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
| 1 |
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(incomplete treble part, opening '... when my heart is vexed', closing 'will he be no more in ...') |
f. 1r |
| 2 |
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I will cry unto God with my voice |
f. 2v |
| 3 |
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(Treble voice-parts for three hymns, untexted) |
ff. 11v-r |
| 4 |
Benjamin Rogers |
Te Deum patrem colimus |
f. 13r |
The manuscript also contains the following:
- inside upper cover: signature 'George Evans'.
- f. 2r: draft opening of item 4 above.
- f. 3r: annotated 'George Evans His Book Jos Jos Dalall / Anno:
Dom: 1714 Joseph Steels not'.
- f. 4r: annotation by Richard Goodson Jr: ' to by wrote out for
Mr Whitfield / O L[or]d thou hast searched me out - Crofts /
& / O Lord rebuke me not Weldon'.
- ff. 5v, 6r and 7v: draft openings of item 4 above.
- f. 10r: annotation by Richard Goodson Jr: 'Nominativo Quis
vel Qui', followed by bar-counts; presumably this refers to
the piece copied by Goodson in Mus. 1078, item 2.
- ff. 12v-r: text only, beginning 'Te adoramus O Jesu'.
- ff. 16r-15v: tables of notes and solmization syllables.
- ff. 16v and inside lower cover: annotations and jottings, including
'John Dalavall 1714', and 'George Evans His Book Nov: the 27th
1714'.
Oblong format, 203 x 115 mm. 16 surviving leaves, plus many
stubs of sheets now excised or torn out. Contemporary binding
of brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with ornaments and
borders on the upper and lower covers. No early bookplate.
No 19th-century shelfmark.
Provenance: presumably used by choristers at Christ Church Cathedral;
subsequently part of the Goodson bequest.
Not included in the standard microfilm series.
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