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Mus. 414-16

Manuscript. Three partbooks from a set of four (Mus. 414: [Treble 2]; Mus. 415: [Treble 1]; Mus. 416: [Bass]; the organ book is missing), containing instrumental music by John Coprario and Christopher Gibbons, copied by Henry Bowman; English, c. 1670-85. For what may have been a planned replacement for the missing organ book, copied by Henry Aldrich, see Mus. 1180.

Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.
The first column gives the modern numbering of the pieces; the second shows numbering used by the copyist(s).

				Mus. 414	Mus. 415	Mus. 416
1	1	[John] Coprario	[Fantasia-suite no. 1 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 109; VdGS 1):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. [0^v-2^r	ff. [0^v-2^r	ff. [0^v-2^r
2	2	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 2 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 110; VdGS 2):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 2^v-4^r	ff. 2^v-4^r	ff. 2^v-4^r
3	3	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 3 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 111; VdGS 3):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 4^v-6^v	ff. 4^v-6^r	ff. 4^v-6^r
4	4	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 4 in C major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 112; VdGS 4):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 7^r-8^v	ff. 6^v-8^r	ff. 6^v-8^r
5	5	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 5 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 113; VdGS 5):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 9^r-10^r	ff. 8^v-10^r	ff. 8^v-10^r
6	6	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 6 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 114; VdGS 6):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 10^v-12^r	ff. 10^v-12^r	ff. 10^v-12^r
7	7	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 7 in d minor, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 115; VdGS 7):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 12^v-14^r	ff. 12^v-14^r	ff. 12^v-14^r
8	8	[John Coprario]	[Fantasia-suite no. 8 in D major, for 2 violins, bass viol and organ (Charteris 116; VdGS 8):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 14^v-17^r	ff. 14^v-17^r	ff. 14^v-16^r
9	1	Dr [Christopher] Gibbons	[Fantasia-suite no. 1 in a minor, for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 13-15):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 18^v-20^r	ff. 17^v-19^r	ff. 17^v-18^r
10	2	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 2 in a minor, for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 16-18):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 20^v-22^r	ff. 19^v-20^v	ff. 18^v-19^v
11	3	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 3 in d minor, for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 19-21):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 22^v-24^r	ff. 21^r-v	ff. 20^r-v
12	4	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 4 in d minor, for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 22-4):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 24^v-26^r	ff. 22^r-23^r	ff. 20^v-22^r
13	5	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 5 in D major, for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 25-7):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 26^v-28^r	ff. 23^v-25^r	ff. 22^v-24^r
14	6	Dr [Christopher] Gibbons	[Fantasia-suite no. 6 in D major, for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 28-30):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard	ff. 28^v-30^r	ff. 25^v-27^r	ff. 24^v-26^r
15	1	Dr [Christopher] Gibbons	[Fantasia-suite no. 1 in d minor, for treble, bass and organ (VdGS 1-3):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard		ff. 28^v-30^r	ff. 27^v-29^r
16	2	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 2 in d minor, for treble, bass and organ (VdGS 4-6):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard		ff. 30^v-32^r	ff. 29^v-31^r
17	3	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 3 in D major, for treble, bass and organ (VdGS 7-9):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard		ff. 32^v-34^r	ff. 31^v-33^r
18	4	[Christopher Gibbons]	[Fantasia-suite no. 4 in D major, for treble, bass and organ (VdGS 10-12):] Fantasia, Allmaine, Galliard		ff. 34^v-36^r	ff. 33^v-35^r
19		Dr [Christopher] Gibbons	[Airs in d minor, for treble, bass and organ (VdGS 61-3):] Allmaine, Corant, Sar[aband]		ff. 36^v-37^r	ff. 35^v-36^r
20		Dr [Christopher] Gibbons	Ayres [= 7 miscellaneous dance-movements in g minor for 2 trebles, bass and organ (VdGS 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 47, 52)]	ff. 31^v-32^v	ff. 38^v-40^r	ff. 36^v-37^v

Upright format, 260 x 207 mm. Gathering structure as follows.

Mus. 414: 12 gatherings, each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios); 48 folios in total. Foliation is in modern pencil, as follows: [0], 1-33, then unfoliated to the end. Unused ruled staves on ff. [0r], 17v-18r, 30v-31r, and from f. 33r to the end of the volume.
Mus. 415: 48 folios in total. Structure: bifolio (ff. [0]-1); then 8 gatherings each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios) = ff. 2-33; then a gathering of 3 nested bifolios (= 6 folios) = ff. 34-9; then 2 gatherings each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios), of which the first 2 leaves are foliated 40-41, and the remainder are unfoliated. Foliation is in modern pencil. Unused ruled staves on ff. [0r], 27v-28r, 37v-38r, and from f. 40v to the end of the volume.
Mus. 416: 50 folios in total. Structure: 9 gatherings each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios) = ff. [0]-35; then a gathering of 3 nested bifolios (= 6 folios), of which the first 3 leaves are foliated 36-8, and the remainder are unfoliated; then 2 gatherings each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios), unfoliated. Foliation is in modern pencil. Unused ruled staves on ff. [0r], 26v-27r, and from f. 38r to the end of the volume.

'Aldrich binding' Type 1; the spines are gold-tooled with the heading 'FANT C / 4.B.'. Bookplate 2 in all three partbooks. 19th-century shelfmarks: I.5.24-6.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, on the evidence of the binding, and the presence of Bookplate 2. This may be the set listed in Dowding (main hand) at position N.1.1 as 'Fancies / MS. in 4 vols'. In Mus. 414-16 itself, the letter 'N' is written in ink at the front of all three partbooks. Dowding's reference to '4 vols' may mistakenly also include a partbook from a different set, with a binding similar to that of Mus. 414-16.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 16.

For a list of other items at Christ Church associated with Henry Bowman, see the entry for Mus. 20.