Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 1142a (ff. 1-20)

Mus. 1142a (ff. 1-20)

Manuscript. Keyboard book; English, mid 17th century. Three copyists, two of them unidentified, the third Christopher Gibbons (items 10, 11, and 18-20). Items 18-20 are copied from the rear with the volume inverted.

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

1	Orlando Gibbons	Fantasia in d (= MB XX, no. 5)	f. 1^r
2		Staves 5-8: sketches	f. 1^r
3	Orlando Gibbons	Fantasia in a (= MB XX, no. 11)	ff. 1^v-2^r
4	Orlando Gibbons (?)	Fantasia in C (= MB XX, no. 49)	f. 2^v
5	Orlando Gibbons	Fantasia in C (= MB XX, no. 14)	ff. 3^r-4^r
6		In nomine (= MB LXVI, no. 13)	ff. 4^v-5^r
7			f. 5^v
8			f. 6^r
9	Orlando Gibbons	Pavan in d (= MB XX, no. 15)	f. 6^v
10	Christopher Gibbons	A verse for the organ	ff. 7^v-8^r
11	Christopher Gibbons		ff. 9^v-10^r
12		In nomine (= MB LXVI, no. 14)	ff. 13^v-15^v
13			f. 16^r
14			f. 16^v
15			f. 17^r
16			f. 17^v
17			f. 18^r
18	John Blitheman (?)	In nomine (= MB LXVI, no. 12)	ff. 19^r-18^v
19	John Blitheman	In nomine (= MB I, no. 91)	ff. 20^r-19^v
20	Christopher Gibbons	sketches	f. 20^v

Upright format, 295 x 195 mm. Two gatherings, each of 5 nested bifolios; 20 folios in total. Foliation is modern. Unused staves on ff. 7r, 8v-9r, 10v-13r. A pastedown cancel at the foot of f. 14r has not been lifted. No trace remains of any earlier binding. Now bound into Mus. 1142a, an early 20th-century guardbook of stiff card and vellum. No early bookplate.

Provenance unknown; not recorded in any catalogue of the Christ Church collections before the 20th century.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 38.

Bibliography:

Editions of Musica Britannica (MB) cited above.
Candace Bailey, Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources (Warren, MI, 2003), esp. pp. 100-101.

For other items at Christ Church associated with Christopher Gibbons, see the list following the entry for Mus. 92.