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 as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

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	A Jigg [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	[Four-movement suite in G major; first movement:] prelude	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	A Sute In Cfa natural [= 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 2-6:] 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.