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Mus. 627

Manuscript. John Church, Service in F major (T/J/K/C/M/N), autograph fair copy in score; English, early 18th century.

Upright format, 435 x 287 mm. Single gathering of 5 nested bifolios (= 10 folios in total), foliated in modern pencil. Contemporary wrappers of thick blue paper, now within an early C20th binding of rough brown leather over boards. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmark: I.8.28.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item H28, as 'Book of Services', annotated by a later hand: 'J. Church. MS. in Score.'; in Mus. 627 itself, the shelfmark 'H.28' is written in ink on the outside upper wrapper.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 26.

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