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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.

  • items 1, 8-9: copyist 1 (unidentified)
  • items 2-4: copyist 2 (unidentified)
  • item 6: copyist 3 (unidentified)
  • item 5: copied by Richard Goodson Jr

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

1 Thomas Tallis Dorian Service (T/B/K/Gos/C/M/N) ff. 1r-6v
3 William Child Sharp Service (M/N) ff. 8v-9v
4 Benjamin Rogers Whole Service in D (T/J/S/K/C) ff. 10r-14v
5 Henry Purcell Te Deum and Jubilate in D ff. 16r-29v
6 William King Out of the horror of the lowest deep ff. 37r-36v
7   For thy word endureth (text incipit only) f. 39r
8 Richard Farrant Call to remembrance f. 39v
9 Thomas Tallis Short Service (S only) f. 39v

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.