Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 45

Mus. 45

Manuscript. Sections of votive antiphons, Magnificats, and other Latin-texted works, copied in table-book format. Copyists unidentified; English, last quarter of 16th century. The principal copyist was responsible for all except items 1 and 37, which were added by two different hands.

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

1		Speciosa facta es [Incomplete]	f. 2^r
2	Robert White	O vos omnes [From Lamentations a5]	ff. 2^v-3^r
3	Robert White	Veniant mihi [From 'Manus tuae fecerunt me']	ff. 3^v-4^r
4	Robert White	Sicut ablactatus [From 'Domine non est exaltatum']	ff. 4^v-5^r
5	Robert White	Domine non est exaltatum [Opening only]	ff. 5^v-6^r
6	Robert White	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 6^v-7^r
7	William Mundy	Sicut locutus est [From a Magnificat]	ff. 7^v-8^r
8	John Sheppard	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 8^v-9^r
9	Robert Parsons	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 9^v-10^r
10	Robert Parsons	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 10^v-11^r
11	Robert White	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 11^v-12^r
12	John Taverner	Et semine eius [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 12^v-13^r
13	John Taverner	Esurientes [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 13^v-14^r
14	William Mundy	Quia fecit mihi magna [From a Magnificat]	ff. 14^v-15^r
15	John Sheppard	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 15^v-16^r
16	Christopher Tye	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a5]	ff. 16^v-17^r
17	Robert White	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 17^v-18^r
18	John Taverner	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 18^v-19^r
19	Christopher Tye	Unde nostris [From a lost 'Post partum virgo']	ff. 19^v-20^r
20	Robert Parsons	O quam glorifica	f. 21^r
21	William Byrd	Alleluia. Confitemini	ff. 21^v-22^r
22	John Taverner	Traditur militibus [From lost sequence]	ff. 22^v-23^r
23	Robert White	Manus tuae fecerunt me [Opening only]	ff. 23^v-24^r
24	Robert White	Peccatum peccavit [From Lamentations a6]	ff. 24^v-25^r
25	Christopher Tye	Ave caput Christi [Opening only]	ff. 25^v-26^r
26	Thomas Tallis	Gaude gloriosa [Opening only]	ff. 26^v-27^r
27	Christopher Tye	Tellus flumina [From a lost sequence]	ff. 27^v-28^r
28	William Byrd	Sanctus	ff. 27^v-28^r
29	John Taverner	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 28^v-29^r
30	John Taverner	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 29^v-30^r
31	Robert Parsons	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 30^v-31^r
32	William Mundy	Et sanctum nomen eius [From a Magnificat]	ff. 31^v-32^r
33	Nicholas Strogers	Esurientes [From a Magnificat]	ff. 32^v-33^r
34	John Sheppard	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 33^v-34^r
35	Robert White	Et sanctum nomen eius [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 34^v-35^r
36		Et sanctum nomen eius [From a Magnificat]	ff. 35^v-36^r
37	William Byrd	Infelix ego [Opening only]	f. 36^v
38	John Sheppard	Laudes Deo	ff. 37^v-39^r
39	Nicholas Strogers	Sicut locutus est	ff. 39^v-40^r
40		Ego sum vestra redemptio	ff. 39^v-40^r

Upright format, 283 x 215 mm. 39 folios, foliated '2-40' by a sixteenth-century hand (partly trimmed and replaced in modern pencil); the original f.1 is missing. Collation unknown on account of the tightness of the binding. The following pages are blank: ff. 20v, 37r, 40v. Late 18th-century binding of white parchment over boards, undecorated except for two parallel fillets at edges. Spine in contrasting brown leather; on spine, a red leather inset, tooled in gold: 'MUSICA / SACRA / M.S.'. Nothing remains of any earlier binding. The volume was bound at Christ Church in the late 18th century as part of an uncompleted binding project intended to protect previously unbound items from the Aldrich and Goodson bequests. (For a list of other volumes in related bindings, see the entry for Mus. 3.) Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmarks: H.1.9, then I.1.9.

Provenance unknown, but presumably from either the Aldrich or Goodson bequests. Not mentioned in any early catalogue before Malchair 1787, where it is listed (f. 3) as 'An Antient Italian M.S. requiring / more studdy to make out than can bee / aforded at Catalogue making time / Quarto Vol. vellum bound' (identified as 'Italian' perhaps because the contents are mostly Latin-texted extracts from pre-Reformation Magnificats and votive antiphons).

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 6.