Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 614

Mus. 614

Manuscript. Contrafacta and other adaptations by Henry Aldrich, copied in score by John Church; English, early 18th century. Evidently a partner volume to Mus. 50.

The contents are arranged in two sequences:

items 1-11: verse anthems;
items 12-24: full anthems.

Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1	[Orlando Gibbons, arr. Henry Aldrich]	Blessed is the man [= Glorious and powerful God]	pp. 1-8
2	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi?]	God is our refuge	pp. 9-16
3	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi?]	O how amiable	pp. 17-24
4	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi]	Hast thee O Lord my God [= O dulcissimum Mariae nomen + final chorus of Jephte]	pp. 25-31
5	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi]	O Lord I will praise thee [derived from Laudemus virum gloriosum + Dicite nobis]	pp. 31-41
6	[Michael Wise, arr. Henry Aldrich]	Thy beauty O Israel [= How are the mighty fallen]	pp. 42-51
7	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi]	For Sion's sake [derived from Egredimini caelestes curiae + Suscitavit Dominus + Annunciate gentes]	pp. 52-62
8	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi?]	O pray for the peace of Jerusalem	pp. 63-72
9	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi]	I am well pleas'd [= Praevaluerunt in nos inimici + Vidi impium superexaltatum]	pp. 73-86
10	[Henry Aldrich, after Carissimi?]	Behold in Heavn on the right hand	pp. 87-97
11	[John Bull, arr. Henry Aldrich]	O Lord my God [= Almighty God, who by the leading]	pp. 98-107
12	[Henry Aldrich, after an unidentified model]	All people that on earth do dwell	1 - 4
13	[Richard Farrant, arr. Henry Aldrich]	Call to remembrance	4 - 7
14	[Richard Farrant, arr. Henry Aldrich]	Hide not thou thy face from us	8 - 10
15	[Henry Aldrich, after an unidentified model]	By the waters of Babylon	11 - 14
16	[Henry Aldrich, after Palestrina]	Why art Thou so vexed (= Ave Maria)	15 - 18
17	[Henry Aldrich, after Palestrina]	My heart is fixt [= Nos autem gloriari]	19 - 23
18	[Henry Aldrich, after Palestrina]	Hold not thy tongue [= Nativitas tua]	24 - 27
19	[Henry Aldrich, after Palestrina]	O God the King of glory [= O rex gloriae]	28 - 32
20	[Henry Aldrich, after Palestrina]	The eye of the Lord [= Jesus junxit se]	32 - 36
21	[Henry Aldrich, after Palestrina]	We have heard with our ears [= Doctor bonus]	37 - 43
22	[Henry Aldrich, after Tallis]	I look for the Lord [from Absterge Domine]	44 - 49
23	[Henry Aldrich, after Byrd]	Be not wroth [= Civitas sancti tui]	50 - 55
24	[Henry Aldrich, after William Mundy]	O Lord I bow the knees	56 - 61

Upright format, 333 x 207 mm. 24 gatherings, each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios); 96 folios in total. Of these, gatherings 1 and 24 were used as endleaves or pastedowns, and are unpaginated; Church's index to the volume is written on f.[4r]. The remaining gatherings are arranged as follows:

Gatherings 2-15: assigned signatures A-O by Church, and paginated 1-112.
Gatherings 16-23: assigned signatures A-H by Church, and paginated 1-64. This second sequence of pagination is now distinguished from the first by prefixed asterisks, *1-*64. (Asterisks were added to these pages in 1990, and will not be present in microfilms made before that date.)

Unused ruled staves on pp. 108-112 and *62-64. Contemporary binding of dark blue leather over boards, gold tooled with fillets and small ornaments on the upper and lower covers and spine. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmark: I.8.15

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Dowding (main hand) at position P6 as 'A Vol. of 11 Verse & 13 full Anthems / of Dr Aldrich fairly wrote'. The shelfmark 'P.6' has been written by Hind on the front flyleaf of the volume.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 25.

For a full list of manuscripts at Christ Church copied by John Church, see the entry for Mus. 50.

Bibliography:

Robert Shay (ed.), Henry Aldrich: Selected Anthems and Motet Recompositions, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 85 (Madison, 1998): includes editions of items 5, 7, 9, 17, 21 and 23.