Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 49 (pp. 88-151)

Mus. 49 (pp. 88-151)

Manuscript. Anthems, songs and dialogues, copied in score. Copyist unidentified; English, late 17th century.

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

1	Richard Portman	Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous	pp. 88-90
2	Pelham Humfrey	Wilt thou forgive that sin ('A Hymn to God the Father')	pp. 91-93
3	Thomas(?) Wilkinson	Hear my prayer, O Lord	pp. 94-95
4	Pelham Humfrey	Lord, I have sinned	pp. 96-98
5	Pelham Humfrey and John Blow	Hark how the wakeful cheerful cock ('A dialogue between two penitents')	pp. 99-107
6	Pelham Humfrey	O, the sad day when friends shall shake their heads	pp. 108-110
7	Henry Cooke	Awake, my soul ('The morning hymn')	pp. 110-114
8	James Hart	Where would coy Aminta run	pp. 115-116
9	John Wilson	Stay, lovely boy	pp. 117-118
10	John Wilson	Black maid, complain not that I fly ('The answer')	pp. 119-120
11	Matthew Locke	When death shall part us from these kids ('Dialogue between Thirsis and Dorinda')	pp. 121-127
12	John Blow	Awake, my lyre	pp. 128-132
13	Henry Hall (i)	Haste, Charon, haste, 'tis Noll ('A dialogue between Oliver and Charon')	pp. 133-140
14	Henry Cooke	As on a river's side	pp. 141-144
15		If I live to be old	pp. 145-146
16	Michael Wise	Old Chiron thus preached	pp. 147-150

Upright format, 307 x 200 mm. Four gatherings, as follows:

Fascicle 1: originally 6 nested bifolios = 12 folios, of which ff. 7-12 have been excised (ff. 1-6: now pp. 88-99). To judge from surviving stubs of the excised folios, music had been copied on them with the fascicle inverted, copying from the rear. The excised leaves have not been traced elsewhere in the Christ Church collection.
Fascicle 2: originally 4 nested bifolios = 8 folios, of which ff. 5-8 have been excised (ff. 1-4: now pp. 100-107). There is no trace of music on the surviving stubs of the excised leaves.
Fascicle 3: originally 4 nested bifolios = 8 folios, of which ff. 5-8 have been excised (ff. 1-4: now pp. 108-115). There is no trace of music on the surviving stubs of the excised leaves.
Fascicle 4: 9 nested bifolios = 18 folios, intact (now pp. 116-51).

Unused staves on p. 151. Now bound as pp. 88-151 of Mus. 49, a late 18th-century guardbook bound in white parchment over boards; pagination is modern.

Provenance uncertain, but most likely from the Aldrich bequest, to judge from a jotting in Aldrich's handwriting on p. 127: 'Here's a Health to the King whom the Crown does belong to' (written below a blank stave, as if intended as text-underlay for a catch).

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 6.

Bibliography:

Jonathan P. Wainwright, Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-1670) (Aldershot and Brookfield VT, 1997), pp. 378-82.