Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 941

Mus. 941

Manuscript. Violin parts for suites and miscellaneous movements; presumably one partbook from a set originally of three, of which the other violin part and the bass are lost; single unidentified copyist; English, ?third quarter of 17th century. No composers' names are supplied. The copyist of Mus. 941 may be one of the hands represented in the early layer of Mus. 90-1.

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

1	Two movements from a suite in A major; ?first two movements missing	f. 1^r
2	Four-movement suite in g minor	ff. 1^v-2^r
3	Four-movement suite in d minor	ff. 2^v-3^v
4	Two movements from a suite in F major; ?first two movements missing	f. 4^r
5	Three-movement suite in C major	ff. 4^v-5^r
6	Jig in B flat major	f. 5^r
7	Three-movement suite in C major	ff. 5^v-6^r
8	Two-movement suite in d minor	f. 6^v
9	Movement in g minor	f. 7^r
10	Two jigs in C, the first annotated 'wickam'	ff. 7^v-8^r
11	Three-movement suite in B flat major	ff. 8^v-9^r
12	Movement in G major	f. 9^v
13	Movement in C major	f. 9^v
14	Two-movement suite in B flat major	f. 10^r
15	Three-movement suite in g minor; first movement: 'Almain'	ff. 10^v-11^r
16	Three-movement suite in g minor; first movement: 'Almain'	ff. 11^v-12^r
17	Two-movement suite in d minor	f. 12^v
18	Two-movement suite in g minor	f. 13^r
19	Three-movement suite in C major	ff. 13^v-14^r
20	Three-movement suite in a minor	ff. 14^v-15^r
21	Incomplete movement in B flat major	f. 15^v
22	Two-movement suite in e minor	f. 16^r
23	Three-movement suite in G major	ff. 16^v-17^r
24	Three-movement suite in F major	ff. 17^v-18^r
25	Four-movement suite in D major; first movement: 'prolude'	ff. 18^v-19^r
26	Movement in g minor	f. 19^v
27	Movement in C major	f. 20^r
28	Movement in F major	f. 20^r
29	Four-movement suite in D major; movements 3-4: 'Gavot', 'Jigg'	ff. 20^v-21^r
30	Nine variations on a ground in B flat major	ff. 21^v-22^r
31	Four-movement suite in g minor	ff. 22^v-23^r
32	Five-movement suite in B flat major	ff. 23^v-24^r
33	Two movements in a minor	ff. 24^v-25^r
34	Movement in F major	f. 25^v
35	Two-movement suite in G major	f. 26^r
36	Seven variations on a ground in F major	ff. 26^v-27^r
37	Two-movement suite B flat major: 'Slow time' / 'a Jigg'	ff. 27^v-28^r
38	Three-movement suite in C major	ff. 28^v-29^r
39	Two-movement suite B flat major: 'Scotch tune' / 'Jigg'	f. 29^v
40	Two-movement suite c minor	f. 30^r
41	Four-movement suite in G major; movement 2: 'Sarabrand'	ff. 30^v-31^r
42	Variations on a ground in B flat major	ff. 31^v-33^r
43	Five-movement suite in g minor	ff. 33^v-34^v
44	Movement in d minor	f. 35^r
45	Four-movement suite in a minor; first movement: 'preludium'	ff. 35^v-36^r
46	Three-movement suite in a minor; second movement: 'gavot'	ff. 36^v-37^r
47	Four-movement suite in B flat major	ff. 37^v-38^r
48	Four-movement suite in C major	ff. 38^v-39^r
49	Four-movement suite in B flat major	ff. 39^v-40^r
50	Two-movement suite in D major; movement 2: 'Trumpet tune'	f. 40^v
51	Movement in e minor	f. 41^r
52	Three-movement suite in F major	ff. 41^v-42^r
53	Three-movement suite in G major; third movement: 'gavot'	ff. 42^v-43^r
54	Four-movement suite in G major; movements 2/4: 'Salabrand' / 'Magot'	ff. 43^v-44^r
55	Six-movement suite in B flat major; movements 2-4: 'Roundo' / 'gavot' / 'Trumpet' / 'Coranto' / 'Jigg'	ff. 44^v-45^v

Oblong format, 197 x 97 mm. Structure: 45 surviving leaves, foliated by the copyist; collation not researched. Fragment of front flyleaf: various pentrials, including 'John brown of yeasington [Easington] in the County of oxon.' Late 17th-century binding of brown leather over boards, blind tooled with fillets, and with decorative tooled edges. Bookplate 3 on inside upper cover. 19th-century shelfmark: E.1.6

Provenance: probably from the Goodson bequest. Possibly part of the repertory of the Oxford city waits.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 30.