Mus. 865(A)Manuscript. Vocal and continuo parts for an anonymous 'Dialogue between the angels and shepherds at Christ's birth', beginning 'Yee Mighty heavens & rolling Orbes', possibly by Francis Pigott; autograph composing score; English, last quarter of 17th century. A set of instrumental interludes for this work (omitted from the score itself), copied in the same hand, is in Mus. 1118, Mus. 1121; these partbooks supply the work's title as given above (which is absent from Mus. 865(A) itself). Upright format, 330 x 213 mm. Three bifolios, the second two of which are nested; 6 folios in total, foliated in modern pencil. An original upper wrapper of thick grey paper remains in place; stab-holes in the gutter suggest that the rest of an earlier binding has been removed. Now pasted and stitched into a modern card folder, and mounted impermanently on a cord within an early 20th-century folder containing all 4 sections of Mus. 865. Provenance: probably from the Goodson bequest (on the grounds that the same copyist's hand occurs in Mus. 90-1, which is more securely of Goodson provenance). Formerly shelved within the Portfolios at position I.2.γ (the reference 'I.2.γ' is written in red crayon on the original outside upper wrapper). In Havergal Summary, the contents of that portfolio are described only in summary as '14 Anonymous anthems, mostly separate, with fragments of others, & 3 services in parts. MS'. Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 29.
For further examples of this copyist's work, see the following:
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