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 as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1		Speciosa facta es [Incomplete]	f. 2^r
2	Mr Whyte	O vos omnes [From Lamentations a5]	ff. 2^v-3^r
3	Mr Whyte	Veniant mihi [From 'Manus tuae fecerunt me']	ff. 3^v-4^r
4	Mr Whyte	Sicut ablactatus [From 'Domine non est exaltatum']	ff. 4^v-5^r
5	Mr Whyte	Domine non est exaltatum [Opening only]	ff. 5^v-6^r
6	Mr Whyte	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 6^v-7^r
7	Mr [William] Mundie	Sicut locutus est [From a Magnificat]	ff. 7^v-8^r
8	Mr Shepperd	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 8^v-9^r
9	Mr. R. Parsons	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 9^v-10^r
10	Mr. Robarte Parsons	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 10^v-11^r
11	Mr Whyte	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 11^v-12^r
12	Mr Tavernor	Et semine eius [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 12^v-13^r
13	Mr Jhon Tavernor	Esurientes [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 13^v-14^r
14	Mr Wm Mundye	Quia fecit mihi magna [From a Magnificat]	ff. 14^v-15^r
15	Mr Shepperde	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 15^v-16^r
16	Doctor Tye	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a5]	ff. 16^v-17^r
17	Mr Whyte	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 17^v-18^r
18	Mr Tavernor	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 18^v-19^r
19	D[octor] Tye	Unde nostris [From a lost 'Post partum virgo']	ff. 19^v-20^r
20	Mr. Robarte Parsons	O quam glorifica	f. 21^r
21	Mr Wm Birde	Alleluya. Confitemini	ff. 21^v-22^r
22	Mr Taverner	Traditur militibus [From lost sequence]	ff. 22^v-23^r
23	Mr. R. Whyte	Manus tue fecerunt me [Opening only]	ff. 23^v-24^r
24	Mr. Whyte	Peccatum pecavit [From Lamentations a6]	ff. 24^v-25^r
25	Doctor Tye	Ave caput Christi [Opening only]	ff. 25^v-26^r
26	Mr Tallis	Gaude gloriosa [Opening only]	ff. 26^v-27^r
27	Doctor Tye	Tellus flumina [From a lost sequence]	ff. 27^v-28^r
28	Mr William Birde	Sanctus	ff. 27^v-28^r
29	Mr Tavernor	Sicut locutus est [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 28^v-29^r
30	Mr Tavernor	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 29^v-30^r
31	Mr Robarte Parsons	Quia fecit mihi magna [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 30^v-31^r
32	Mr Wm Mundie	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	Mr Shepperd	Sicut erat in principio [From Magnificat a6]	ff. 33^v-34^r
35	Mr Whyte	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	[Byrd, William]	Infelix ego [Opening only]	f. 36^v
38	Mr Shepperde	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.