Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 440

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 as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1	Mr Tallis	[Dorian Service. T/B/K/Gos/C/M/N]	ff. 1^r-6^v
3	Dr Childe	[Sharp Service. M/N]	ff. 8^v-9^v
4	Mr Rogers	[Whole Service in D. T/J/S/K/C]	ff. 10^r-14^v
5	Mr Hen: Purcell	Te Deum [and] Jubilate [in D; here transp. to C]	ff. 16^r-29^v
6	Dr [William] Kinge	Out of the horrour of the lowest deep ['Psal: 130']	ff. 37^r-36^v
7		For thy word endureth [text incipit only]	f. 39^r
8	[Richard Farrant]	Call to remembrance	f. 39^v
9	Mr Tallis	[Short Service. S (only); see no. 1 above]	f. 39^v

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.