Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 46

Mus. 46

Manuscript. Keyboard book, containing at the front of the volume principally organ accompaniments for English service music and anthems (items 1-10), and at the rear songs and secular keyboard works (items 11-28); English, early 18th century. Copied collaboratively by up to five unidentified copyists, principally by the hand designated below as 'Copyist A'.

Copyist A was responsible for copying items 1-6, 7 (collaboratively with Copyist B), 9, 11 and 13-24.
Copyist B was responsible for copying items 7 (collaboratively with Copyist A) and 8.
Copyist C was responsible for copying items 10 and 12.
Two other copyists were responsible for copying items 25-8.

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

1	Benjamin Rogers	Whole Service in D sol re: T/K (see also no. 3 below)	ff. 1^r-5^r
2	Lambe	Kyrie in B flat	f. 5^r
3	Benjamin Rogers	Whole Service in D sol re: J/M/N (see also no. 1 above)	ff. 6^r-10^v
4		Formulae for chanting T/J/M	ff. 11^r-v
5		Prelude in C major	ff. 11^v-12^r
6	Giacomo Carissimi	O vulnera doloris	ff. 12^v-14^r
7	Orlando Gibbons	Behold, thou hast made my days	ff. 14^v-17^v
8	Henry Lawes	My song shall be of mercy and judgement	ff. 17^v-20^r
9	Henry Loosemore	O that mine eyes would melt	ff. 20^v-23^r
10		Two unidentified figured basses	f. 23^v
11		Come, Chloris, come, let us rejoice	f. 74^v
12	Robert King	Allemande in A major	ff. 74^r-73^v
13	Philip Hart	Sound the trumpet, beat the drum	ff. 73^r-72^r
14	Pietro Reggio	A mighty pain to love it is ('Gold')	ff. 71^v-70^r
15	Pietro Reggio	Foolish prater, what dost thou ('The swallow')	ff. 70^r-68^r
16		Minuet in d minor	f. 67^v
17	John Eccles	A soldier and a sailor	ff. 67^r-66^v
18	after Jean-Baptiste Lully	Cibell (based on 'Descente de Cybelle' from 'Atys', LWV 53/38)	ff. 66^r-65^v
19	Henry Purcell	Saraband (from Suite in C major, Z.666/4)	f. 65^r
20	Francis Pigott	March in C major	f. 64^v
21	Henry Purcell	Ground in Gamut (Z.645)	ff. 64^r-63^r
22	Henry Purcell	Britons strike home (from 'Bonduca', Z.574(2/16b))	f. 62^v
23		The bass minuet (in C major)	ff. 62^r-61^v
24	Francis Pigott	Jig in B flat major	f. 61^r
25		'A lute tune' (for keyboard)	f. 60^v
26	Jeremiah Clarke	An Ayre (in C major)	f. 60^r
27	Jeremiah Clarke	The Serenade (in D major)	f. 59^v
28	John Barrett	Courant in b minor	ff. 59^r-[58]^v

Upright format, 305 x 200 mm. 71 folios, foliated in modern pencil as follows: ff. 1-24; then [ff. 25-55] unfoliated; then ff. 56-71 incorrectly foliated as '59-74'. (The incorrect foliation is cited in the inventory above.) Pages with music notation have the following collation. (No attempt has been made to establish a collation for the unfoliated central block of leaves with unused staves.)

From front of volume: A10 (= ff. 1-10) / B6 (ff. 11-18) / C10 (ff. 19-[28]).
From rear of volume: Z12 (ff. '63-74') / ?Y14 (of which Y1-9 are unfoliated, Y10 is excised, and Y11-14 are ff. '59-62').

Unused ruled staves on ff. 5v and 24r-'[58]'r. Early 18th-century binding of mottled brown leather over boards, gold-tooled with fillets. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark: I.1.10.

Provenance unknown; possibly from the Goodson bequest (on the grounds of absence of an early bookplate). Not listed in any of the 18th-century catalogues of the Christ Church music collections.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 6.