Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 362

Mus. 362

Manuscript. Principally a treble partbook (violin?) apparently from a set of three, containing suites and other instrumental music, some of which may ultimately derive from the repertory of the royal violin band (or 'Twenty-four Violins') of Charles II; also some pieces in which a bass (and sometimes a second treble part) are provided. Compiled collaboratively by various unidentified copyists; English, last quarter of the 17th century. Closely linked with Mus. 361 (q.v.).

Mus. 361 and Mus. 362 were probably compiled by Oxfordshire musicians, including a violinist named George Stone 'of Yarnton'. Yarnton Manor, which lies approx. 6 miles north of central Oxford, was built c.1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer, and was inhabited by his descendants during the remainder of the 17th century. In Mus. 361-2, the following annotations relate to Stone, Yarnton and the Spencers:

'George Stone of yarnton' (Mus. 362, f. 37v, inverted); 'Stone his ffidling' and 'George ?Stone' (Mus. 362, inside upper cover); 'George ?Stone' (Mus. 362, annotation at top of f. 22r); 'George stone is a' (Mus. 362, annotation on f. 24r).
'Mr Spencer of yarnton' (Mus. 361, rear flyleaf, recto, partly deleted); 'Wm Spencer Esquir' (Mus. 361, front flyleaf, recto, partly concealed under modern contents list); 'Sir thomas spencear' (Mus. 362, annotation at end of item 32); 'Spencer of marthe' (Mus. 361, rear flyleaf, recto); 'Mr Spencer' (attribution to Mus. 362, item 60).

Various titles of pieces or annotations in the partbooks may hint at the circle of musicians that compiled them, and/or at their audience. They include the following, which are arranged alphabetically by last name:

'Maddam Bartons delight' and 'Madames Bartiones delight of Musike' (Mus. 362, title/annotation at end of item 34).
'Mr John Browne' (Mus. 361, annotation on inside lower cover).
'John Cox' (Mus. 361, annotation on rear flyleaf, recto).
'Mr Overberryes Hampsheire Hony' (Mus. 361, title/annotation on f. 43v).
'M[istr]is Martha Rogers' (Mus. 362, annotation on f. 28v, twice).
'Edward Smith' (Mus. 362, annotation on inside lower cover).
'Robert Win [or 'Min'?] his boock' (Mus. 362, annotation on f. 24r).

Many different copyists contributed to Mus. 362. In the inventory that follows, no attempt is made to link the copying of specific pieces with different hands, nor to trace those same hands in other manuscripts within the Christ Church collections. However, it is possible that the copyist responsible for items 41 and 47 may be the hand tentatively identified elsewhere as that of Francis Pigott. For a list of other examples of this copyist's hand, see the entry for Mus. 865(A).

In the inventory below, items 1-70 are copied from what is now designated as the front of the volume, items 71-94 from the rear with the volume inverted. Unless otherwise stated, pieces are represented by a single voice-part notated in the treble clef.

Treble and bass instrumental parts: items 39, 51, 71-2, 75, 82-3, and 86-7.
Two trebles plus bass parts: items 74, 76, 78 and 80.
Keyboard score: item 22.
Tablature: items 38 and 45.
Item 21: two additional instrumental parts for this piece are in Mus. 90-1, item 14. In Mus. 362, the attribution to 'Mr Hall' is followed by two undeciphered words, possibly 'Corsk' and 'tun[e]'.

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

1		Two movements in g minor, the first incomplete at the beginning, the second marked 'ffinis', with the instruction to 'play the prelud betwixt each strayne and last'	f. 1^r
2	'Mr Smyth'	Movement in F major	f. 1^v
3	Louis Grabu	Movement in G major	ff. 1^v-2^r
4	'Mr Smyth'	Movement in d minor; at end: 'Mr Smyth d sol: re'	f. 2^r
5	Nicholas Staggins	Movement in d minor	f. 2^r
6		Movement in g minor	f. 2^v
7	'Mr Smith'	Movement in D major	f. 2^v
8	'Mr Kelly'	Movement in G major	f. 3^r
9		Movement in d minor	f. 3^r
10	'Mr Smyth'	Movement in c minor	f. 3^v
11	?Jeoffrey Ayleworth	Movement in G major, copied twice, the first copy incomplete and deliberately smudged, as if to delete	ff. 3^v-4^r
12		Movement in g minor, in four strains	ff. 4^v-5^r
13		Two movements in B flat major	f. 5^v
14	John Banister ?(ii)	Two movements in g minor	f. 6^r
16	John Banister ?(ii)	Movement in B flat major	f. 7^r
17		Movement in D major	f. 7^v
18		Movement in G major; at end: 'hobby horse'	ff. 7^v-8^r
19	Thomas? Farmer	Movement in c minor	f. 8^r
20	'Mr Smyth'	Movement in d minor	f. 8^v
21	'Mr Hall'	Movement G major (= Mus. 90-1, no.14)	f. 9^r
22		Keyboard movement in C major	f. 9^v
23	John Dowdon	Two movements in G major	f. 10^r
24		Movement in d minor	f. 10^v
25	'Mr Smith'	Movement in D major	f. 11^r
26	John Dowdon	Three movements in A major or G major, possibly variants of one another	ff. 11^v-12^r
27		Movement in B flat major	f. 12^r
28		Movement in D major	f. 12^v
29		Incomplete movement probably in G major	f. 12^v
30		Movement in g minor	f. 13^r
31		Movement in G major	f. 13^r
32	?John Banister (ii)	Movement in g minor	f. 13^v
33		Movement in D major	f. 14^r
34		Madam Barton's delight (= movement in F major)	f. 14^r
35		Movement in B flat major	f. 14^v
36		Movement in C major	f. 14^v
37	John Dowdon	Movement in G major	f. 15^r
38		Fragment in tablature	f. 15^r
39		Movement in d minor; treble and bass parts, written consecutively	f. 15^v
40		Movement in d minor	f. 16^r
41		Movement in c minor; bass part only; copied with the volume inverted	f. 16^r
42		Movement in G major	f. 16^v
43		Movement probably in d minor, incomplete at end	f. 16^v
44		Movement in C major	f. 17^v
45		Fragment in tablature, roughly aligned with a bass part apparently in d minor	f. 17^v
46		Movement in g minor	f. 18^r
47		Movement in c minor; bass part only; copied with the volume inverted	f. 18^r
48		Movement in g minor; at end: 'the Last Strane but once'	f. 18^v
49		Movement in F major	f. 19^r
50		Movement in a minor	f. 19^v
51		Movement in F major; treble and bass parts, written consecutively	f. 20^r
52		Movement in F major	f. 20^v
53	?Jeoffrey Ayleworth	Movement in D major	f. 20^v
54		Movement in F major; copied with the volume inverted	f. 21^r
55		Movement in d minor; copied with the volume inverted	f. 21^r
56		My mistress say'th shall marry none but me (words only, laid out beneath staves as if text-underlay)	f. 22^r
57		Movement in G major; copied with the volume inverted	f. 21^v
58		Fragment in G major	f. 22^r
59	?John Banister (ii)	Movement in C major	f. 22^v
60	'Mr Spencer'	Movement in C major	f. 23^r
61		Movement in D major	ff. 23^v-24^r
62		Movement in F major	f. 24^r
63	'Mr Forcil'	Two movements in B flat major	f. 25^v
64		Movement in c minor	f. 26^r
65		Two-voice draft in B flat major, copied with the volume inverted	f. 26^r
66		Movement in g minor	f. 26^v
67		Movement in C major	f. 26^v
68	Robert Smith	Movement in C major	f. 27^r
69	Robert King	Movement in G major	f. 27^r
70		Movement in ?G major	f. 27^v
71		Movement in D major; treble and bass parts, written consecutively	f. 39^v
72	'Trundle'	Movement in F major; treble and bass parts, written consecutively; copied with the volume inverted	ff. 38^v-39^r
73		Various jottings	f. 39^r
74		Movement in B flat major; treble and bass parts in score, and second treble part added at end; copied with the volume inverted	f. 38^r
75		Movement in A major; treble and bass parts in score; copied with the volume inverted	f. 37^v
76		Movement in B flat major; treble and bass parts in score, and second treble part added at end	ff. 37^r-36^v
77		Jottings, copied with the volume inverted	f. 36^v
78		Movement in B flat major; treble and bass parts in score, and second treble part added at end	ff. 36^r-35^v
79		Movement in B flat minor (see also no. 81 below)	f. 35^v
80		Movement in c minor; treble and bass parts in score, and second treble part added at end	ff. 35^r-34^v
81		Variant of movement in B flat minor = no. 79 above	f. 34^v
82		Movement in c minor; treble and bass parts in score	f. 34^r
83		Movement in B flat major; treble and bass parts, written consecutively	f. 33^r
84	Jean-Baptiste Lully	Unidentified movement in C major	f. 33^r
85		Movement in d minor; bass part only	f. 33^r
86	'Mr Loyd'	Movement in B flat major; treble and bass parts, written consecutively	f. 32^v
87		Movement in B flat major; treble and bass parts, written consecutively	ff. 32^r-31^v
88	?John Banister (ii)	Movement in B flat major	f. 31^r
89		Opening of a movement in B flat major, in two drafts	ff. 31^r-30^v
90		Movement in D major	f. 30^v
91	Thomas? Farmer	Four-movement suite in C major	ff. 30^r-29^v
92	Thomas? Farmer	Two-movement suite in B flat major	ff. 29^r-28^v
93		Movement in d minor	f. 28^v
94	Thomas? Farmer	Two-movement suite in a minor	f. 28^r

Oblong format, 200 x 105 mm. 39 surviving folios; foliation is in modern pencil. Collation details as follows:

Probably A6 (of which A1-3 are excised; A4-6 = modern ff. 1-3) / B6 (ff. 4-9) / C6 (ff. 10-15) / D6 (ff. 16-21) / E6 (ff. 22-7) / probaby F6 (of which F1-4 are excised; F5-6 = ff. 28-9) / G6 (ff. 30-35) / probably H6 (of which H5-6 are excised; H1-4 = ff. 36-9).

Unused ruled staves on ff. 17r and 24v-25r. Late 17th-century binding of brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with fillets. Inside upper and lower covers heavily annotated with pen-trials; for the most significant of these jottings, see the comments at the top of this page. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark partially concealed under a modern pastedown contents-list, but probably I.4.74.

Provenance unknown, but most likely from the Goodson bequest (on grounds of the repertorial link with Mus. 90-1, which is more securely of Goodson provenance, and the possible presence of the 'Pigott' hand, which otherwise occurs only in Goodson books).