Mus. 1142a (ff. 1-20)
Manuscript. Keyboard book; English, mid 17th century. Three
copyists, two of them unidentified, the third Christopher Gibbons
(items 10, 11, and 18-20). Items 18-20 are copied from the rear
with the volume inverted.
Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.
| 1 |
[Orlando Gibbons] |
[Fantasia in d = MB XX, no. 5] |
f. 1r |
| 2 |
|
[staves 5-8: sketches] |
f. 1r |
| 3 |
Mr Orlando Gibbons |
fantazia [in a = MB XX, no. 11] |
ff. 1v-2r |
| 4 |
[?Orlando Gibbons] |
[Fantasia in C = MB XX, no. 49] |
f. 2v |
| 5 |
[Orlando Gibbons] |
[Fantasia in C = MB XX, no. 14] |
ff. 3r-4r |
| 6 |
|
[In nomine = MB LXVI, no. 13] |
ff. 4v-5r |
| 7 |
|
[unidentified] |
f. 5v |
| 8 |
|
[untitled = MB LXVI, no. 29] |
f. 6r |
| 9 |
[Orlando Gibbons] |
[Pavan in d = MB XX, no. 15] |
f. 6v |
| 10 |
Christ[opher] Gibbons |
A verse for the organ [at end: 'drunke from the Catherne Whele') |
ff. 7v-8r |
| 11 |
[Christopher Gibbons] |
[incomplete draft of a keyboard piece] |
ff. 9v-10r |
| 12 |
|
[In nomine = MB LXVI, no. 14] |
ff. 13v-15v |
| 13 |
|
[unidentified] |
f. 16r |
| 14 |
|
[unidentified] |
f. 16v |
| 15 |
|
[unidentified] |
f. 17r |
| 16 |
|
[unidentified] |
f. 17v |
| 17 |
|
[unidentified] |
f. 18r |
| 18 |
[?John Blitheman] |
Innomine [= MB LXVI, no. 12] |
ff. 19r-18v |
| 19 |
[John Blitheman] |
[In nomine = MB I, no. 91] |
ff. 20r-19v |
| 20 |
[Christopher Gibbons] |
[sketches] |
f. 20v |
Upright format, 295 x 195 mm. Two gatherings, each of 5 nested
bifolios; 20 folios in total. Foliation is modern. Unused staves
on ff. 7r, 8v-9r, 10v-13r. A pastedown cancel at the foot of
f. 14r has not been lifted. No trace remains of any earlier binding.
Now bound into Mus. 1142a, an early 20th-century guardbook
of stiff card and vellum. No early bookplate.
Provenance unknown; not recorded in any catalogue of the Christ
Church collections before the 20th century.
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 38.
Bibliography:
- Editions of Musica Britannica (MB) cited above.
- Candace Bailey, Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources
(Warren, MI, 2003), esp. pp. 100-101.
For other items at Christ Church associated with Christopher
Gibbons, see the list following the entry for Mus. 92.
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