Mus. 440
Manuscript. Tenor partbook from an otherwise untraced set of
at least four; English, late 17th or early 18th century. Some
of the unused pages (ff. 16r-29v) were subsequently used by Richard
Goodson Jr to notate organ scores. Items nos. 6-9 were copied
from the rear, with the volume inverted.
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
Upright format, 255 x 200 mm. 39 folios; foliation is modern; ff. 1r-8r were paginated '1-17' by the original copyists. Unused ruled staves on ff. 15r-v, 30r-36r, and 37v-38v. The text-block appears to have been preceded by 2 flyleaves at the front (of which leaf i is partially torn out), and followed by 4 flyleaves at the rear (of which leaf ii is a torn stub, inscribed 'Edward Yonge his book'). Contemporary binding of dark brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with fillets and ornaments on the covers, and fillets on the spine; the tools used to decorate this binding have not been observed in other bindings within the music collections at Christ Church. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark: I.5.50. Provenance: presumably part of the Goodson bequest. Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 18.
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