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 as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1	[Orlando Gibbons]	[Fantasia in d = MB XX, no. 5]	f. 1^r
2		[staves 5-8: sketches]	f. 1^r
3	Mr Orlando Gibbons	fantazia [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		[unidentified]	f. 5^v
8		[untitled = MB LXVI, no. 29]	f. 6^r
9	[Orlando Gibbons]	[Pavan in d = MB XX, no. 15]	f. 6^v
10	Christ[opher] Gibbons	A verse for the organ [at end: 'drunke from the Catherne Whele')	ff. 7^v-8^r
11	[Christopher Gibbons]	[incomplete draft of a keyboard piece]	ff. 9^v-10^r
12		[In nomine = MB LXVI, no. 14]	ff. 13^v-15^v
13		[unidentified]	f. 16^r
14		[unidentified]	f. 16^v
15		[unidentified]	f. 17^r
16		[unidentified]	f. 17^v
17		[unidentified]	f. 18^r
18	[?John Blitheman]	Innomine [= 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.