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Mus. 1202(A-K)

Manuscript. Organ score and performing parts for two works by John Savery (Te Deum & Jubilate in C; verse anthem 'Teach me, O Lord'); English, mid 18th century.

The component sheets have been arranged into ten fascicles (labelled 'A-K'), each of which is now bound into a folder of thin card and mounted impermanently on cords within an early 20th-century folder of stiff card and vellum (upright format, 390 x 270 mm). No early bookplate. Formerly Mus. 1138.


  • Mus. 1202(A): organ score; copyist unidentified.

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

1 John Savery Te Deum and Jubilate in C ff. 2r-5r
2 John Savery Teach me, O Lord (rejected page) f. 5v
3 John Savery Teach me, O Lord ff. 8r-6v

Upright format, 375 x 260 mm. Fascicle of 4 nested bifolios, with an additional folio (f. 6) pasted to f. 5v; 9 folios in total. Foliation was added in March 2003, and will not be visible in microfilms made before that date. Unused ruled staves on ff. 1v, 6r and 8v-9v. Annotations of f. 1r by Havergal (in pencil) and York Powell (in ink).


  • Mus. 1202(B): voice-parts for item 3 ('Teach me, O Lord'). Copyist unidentified. Six sheets, all upright format (various sizes), each now pasted to a guard, nested together, and mounted impermanently on cords. Foliation is modern.

f. 1r-v [Verse] for Tenor or Trible
f. 2r [Chorus treble] Cantoris
f. 3r [Chorus treble] Decany
f. 4r [Chorus bass] Cantoris [and] Decani
f. 5r [Chorus tenor] Cantoris
f. 6r [Chorus Contratenor] Decany [and] Cantoris

  • Mus. 1202(C-K): voice-parts for item 1 (Te Deum & Jubilate in C). Copyist unidentified. Eight bifolios (all upright format, 327 x 205 mm), each separately bound into its own modern card folder and mounted impermanently on cords.

Mus. 1202(C) [Treble] Decany
Mus. 1202(D) [Contratenor] Decany
Mus. 1202(E) [Contratenor] Cantoris
Mus. 1202(F) [Bass] Decany
Mus. 1202(G) [Bass] Cantoris
Mus. 1202(H) [Tenor] Decany
Mus. 1202(J) [Tenor] Cantoris
Mus. 1202(K) [Teeble] Cantoris

Provenance: not recorded in any early catalogue until Havergal Summary, where the fascicles are collectively listed among the Portfolios at position I.2.β, item 16: 'Te Deum, Jubilate & an anthem by Savery. MS. XVIII cent:'. In Mus. 1202 itself, the portfolio reference 'I.2.β' is written in red crayon on f. 1r of Mus. 1202(A).

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 39.