Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 1178

Mus. 1178

Manuscript. One of a pair of partbooks (the other is now Mus. 49 (pp. 152-91)) originally containing the upper voice-parts and basso continuo of five motets for two voices and continuo by Giovanni Felice Sances (nos. 4-8 below), copied by Charles Husbands Sr, to which other motets by Italian composers (nos. 1-3 and 9-11) were subsequently added by Edward Lowe. English, c. 1670-80.

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

1	Gasparo Casati	Regina caeli laetare	ff. 1^r-v
2	Giovanni Rovetta	Laudate pueri	ff. 2^r-3^r
3	Egidio Trabattone	Anima mea in aeterna dulcedine	ff. 3^v-4^v
4	Felice Sances	Judica me Deus	ff. 5^r-7^r
5	Felice Sances	Domine ne memineris	ff. 7^vv-10^v
6	Felice Sances	Tota pulchra es, amica mea	ff. 10^v-12^r
7	Felice Sances	Deus in adiutorium	ff. 12^v-14^r
8	Felice Sances	Laudemus viros gloriosos	ff. 14^v-16^v
9	Gaparo Casati	O Jesu mea vita	ff. 17^v-18^r
10	Natale Monferrato	Regina caeli laetare	ff. 18^v-19^r
11		In te Domine speravi	ff. 19^v-20^r

Upright format, 320 x 210 mm. Nested fascicle of 10 bifolios (= 20 folios in total), of which the central six bifolios (ff. 5-16) form the core copied by Charles Husbands Sr (and are paginated '1-24' by him). The surrounding 4 bifolios (ff. 1-4, 17-20) are of paper with a different watermark. (The partner partbook, Mus. 49 (pp. 152-91), has an identical gathering structure.) Foliation is modern. Unused ruled staves on f. 20v. No early bookplate. Early 20th-century binding of tooled brown leather over boards.

Provenance unknown. Not recorded in any early catalogue until Havergal Summary, where it is listed among the Portfolios at position I.2.β, item 2: '12 [motets by] Cassatus Carissimi (?) Sances, & anon: MS.'; in Mus. 1178 itself, the portfolio reference 'I.2.β' is written in red crayon at the top of f. 1r.

Annotation on f. 14v (item 8) in an unidentified late C17th hand: 'Throughbase in the Thick 4to page 303'; the identity of the latter volume has not been traced. There is an identical annotation at this point in the partner partbook. Annotation on f. 17r by Edward Lowe: 'Set up thy selfe'.

For a citation of this pair of partbooks, see the comment by Lowe on f. 1r of Mus. 1151.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 60.

Bibliography:

Jonathan P. Wainwright, Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-1670) (Aldershot and Brookfield VT, 1997), pp. 418-19.