Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 419-22

Mus. 419-22

Manuscript. Four partbooks containing performing parts for English consort music. Copyist unidentified; English, probably third quarter of the 17th century. Several of the pieces lack one or more voice-parts; either the missing parts were written into a lost fifth partbook, or (more probably) the set was abandoned before copying was finished. Item 18 was added by Henry Aldrich probably in the late 17th century.

Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

			Mus. 419	Mus. 420	Mus. 421	Mus. 422
1	Orlando Gibbons	Fantazia [1 a3, for the 'great dooble basse'; VdGS 1]	ff. 0^v-1^r	ff. 0^v-1^r	ff. 0^v-1^r
2	[Orlando Gibbons]	Fantazia 2 [a3, for the 'great dooble basse'; VdGS 2]	ff. 1^v-2^r	ff. 1^v-2^r	ff. 1^v-2^r
3	[Orlando Gibbons]	Fantazia [3 a3, for the 'great dooble basse'; VdGS 3]	ff. 2^v-3^r	ff. 2^v-3^r	ff. 2^v-3^r
4	Orlando Gibbons	Fantazia [4 a3, for the 'great dooble basse'; VdGS 4]	ff. 3^v-4^r	ff. 3^v-4^r	ff. 3^v-4^r
5	[Orlando Gibbons]	Fantazia [1 a4, for the 'great dooble basse'; VdGS 1]	ff. 4^v-5^r	ff. 4^v-5^r	ff. 4^v-5^r
6	[Orlando Gibbons]	Fantazia [2 a4, for the 'great dooble basse'; VdGS 2]	ff. 5^v-6^r	ff. 5^v-6^r	ff. 5^v-6^r
7	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 5 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 113a; VdGS 5a)]		ff. 6^v-7^r	ff. 6^v-7^r
8	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 6 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 114a; VdGS 6a)]		ff. 7^v-8^r	ff. 7^v-8^r
9	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 7 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 115a; VdGS 7a)]		ff. 8^v-9^r	ff. 8^v-9^r
10	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 1 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 109a; VdGS 1a)]		ff. 9^v-10^r	ff. 9^v-10^r
11	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 2 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 110a; VdGS 2a)]		ff. 10^v-11^r	ff. 10^v-11^r
12	Mr [John] Coperario	[Fantasia (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 3 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 111a; VdGS 3a)]		ff. 11^v-12^r	ff. 11^v-12^r
13	[John Coprario]	[Alman and Galliard (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 1 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 109b-c; VdGS 1b-c)]		ff. 15^v-16^r	ff. 15^v-16^r
14	[John Coprario]	[Alman and alternative Galliard (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 2 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 110b-cc; VdGS 2b-cc)]		ff. 16^v-17^r	ff. 16^v-17^r
15	[John Coprario]	[Alman and alternative Galliard (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 3 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 111b-cc; VdGS 3b-cc)]		ff. 17^v-18^r	ff. 17^v-18^r
16	[John Coprario]	[Alman and Galliard (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 5 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 113b-c; VdGS 5b-c)]		ff. 18^v-19^r	ff. 18^v-19^r
17	[John Coprario]	[Alman and Galliard (only) from Fantasia-suite no. 6 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 114b-c; VdGS 6b-c)]		ff. 19^v-20^r
18	[John] Coperario	Fancy [(only) from Fantasia-suite no. 1 in G major, for violin, bass viol and organ (Charteris 93a; VdGS 1a); organ part, incomplete]				ff. 51^r-50^v

Upright format, 250 x 190 mm. Physical structure:

Mus. 419: 46 folios, the first 8 of which are foliated [0] and '1-7' in modern pencil; thereafter unfoliated. Collation: A6 (ff. [0]-5), B6 (ff. 6-7 and [8-11]); remaining collation not researched. Unused ruled staves on f. [0]r, and from f. 6v to the end of the volume.
Mus. 420: 48 folios, the first 22 of which are foliated [0] and '1-21' in modern pencil; thereafter unfoliated. Collation: A6 (ff. [0]-5), B6 (ff. 6-11), C6 (ff. 12-17), D6 (ff. 18-21 and [22-3]); remaining collation not researched. Unused ruled staves on ff. [0]r, 12v-15r, and from f. 20v to the end of the volume.
Mus. 421: 42 folios, the first 21 of which are foliated [0] and '1-20' in modern pencil; thereafter unfoliated. Collation: A6 (ff. [0]-5), B6 (ff. 6-11), C6 (ff. 12-17), D6 (ff. 18-20 and [21-3]); remaining collation not researched. Unused ruled staves on ff. [0]r, 12v-15r, and from f. 19v to the end of the volume.
Mus. 422: 51 folios, unfoliated. Collation not researched. Unused ruled staves on ff. [1-50r] and [51v].

Late 17th-century 'Aldrich binding', Type 1; edges marbled. Spines gold-tooled: 'FANT / F / 4.B.', and numbered '1-4'. Bookplate 2 in all four partbooks. 19th-century shelfmarks: I.5.29-32.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest (on grounds of the binding and the presence of Aldrich's handwriting). Probably the set listed in Dowding (main hand) at shelfmark N.3 as 'Fancies / MS. in 4 parts'; no shelfmarks are written into Mus. 419-22 themselves.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 16.