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 as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1	Doctor [Benjamin] Rogers	[Whole Service in D sol re: T/K; see also no. 3 below]	ff. 1^r-5^r
2	Mr Lambe	[Kyrie in B flat]	f. 5^r
3	Doctor [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		A 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 dayes	ff. 14^v-17^v
8	Mr Hen:[ry] Lawes	My song shall be of mercy and Judgment	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 Cloris Come Lett us rejoyce	f. 74^v
12	R[obert] K[ing]	Allmand [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 dos't 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	Mr [Henry] Purcell	A 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 Base Minuitt [in C major]	ff. 62^r-61^v
24	Mr [Francis] Pigitt	A Gigg [in B flat major)	f. 61^r
25		A Lute Tune [for keyboard]	f. 60^v
26	Mr [Jeremiah] Clark	[An Ayre (in C major)]	f. 60^r
27	Mr [Jeremiah] Clark	Serenade [in D major]	f. 59^v
28	Mr [John] Barrett	Corant [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.