Mus. 1219(A)

Manuscript. Organ score of two verse anthems by Orlando Gibbons. English, first half of C17th; copyist unidentified. Formerly Mus. 1219, item 1.

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

Single sheet, oblong format, 407 x 275 mm, folded once vertically. No early bookplate. The attribution of the pieces to Gibbons has been added in ink by Havergal. Now loose within an early 20th century portfolio folder containing all 10 sections of Mus. 1219, the contents of which were foliated and allocated new call-numbers (including the alphabetic letters A-U) in September 1990, with further minor adjustments made in August 1998. In microfilms made before that date and in references in the Gibbons literature, this sheet is numbered '1'.

Provenance unknown. Not recorded in any early catalogue until Havergal Summary, where it is listed among the Portfolios at position I.2.β., item 18: '2 anthems by Or: Gibbons. MS. middle of XVII. cent:'; in Mus. 1219(A) itself, the portfolio reference 'I.2.β' has been written in black ink by Havergal at the head of the recto and the foot of the verso.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 39.