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Mus. 46

Manuscript. Keyboard book, containing at the front of the volume principally organ accompaniments for English service music and anthems (items 1-10), and at the rear songs and secular keyboard works (items 11-28); English, early 18th century. Copied collaboratively by up to five unidentified copyists, principally by the hand designated below as 'Copyist A'.

  • Copyist A was responsible for copying items 1-6, 7 (collaboratively with Copyist B), 9, 11 and 13-24.
  • Copyist B was responsible for copying items 7 (collaboratively with Copyist A) and 8.
  • Copyist C was responsible for copying items 10 and 12.
  • Two other copyists were responsible for copying items 25-8.
Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.
1 Doctor [Benjamin] Rogers [Whole Service in D sol re: T/K; see also no. 3 below] ff. 1r-5r
2 Mr Lambe [Kyrie in B flat] f. 5r
3 Doctor [Benjamin] Rogers [Whole Service in D sol re: J/M/N; see also no. 1 above] ff. 6r-10v
4   [Formulae for chanting T/J/M] ff. 11r-v
5   A prelude [in C major] ff. 11v-12r
6 [Giacomo Carissimi] O Vulnera Doloris ff. 12v-14r
7 [Orlando Gibbons] Behold thou hast made my dayes ff. 14v-17v
8 Mr Hen:[ry] Lawes My song shall be of mercy and Judgment ff. 17v-20r
9 [Henry Loosemore] O that mine eyes would melt ff. 20v-23r
10   [Two unidentified figured basses] f. 23v
11   Come Cloris Come Lett us rejoyce f. 74v
12 R[obert] K[ing] Allmand [in A major] ff. 74r-73v
13 [Philip Hart] Sound the Trumpet Beat the drum ff. 73r-72r
14 [Pietro Reggio] A mighty pain to love it is ['Gold'] ff. 71v-70r
15 [Pietro Reggio] Foolish prater, what dos't thou ['The swallow'] ff. 70r-68r
16   [Minuet in d minor] f. 67v
17 [John Eccles] [A soldier and a sailor] ff. 67r-66v
18 [after Jean-Baptiste Lully] Cibell [based on 'Descente de Cybelle' from 'Atys', LWV 53/38)] ff. 66r-65v
19 [Henry Purcell] Saraband [from Suite in C major, Z.666/4] f. 65r
20 [Francis Pigott] March [in C major] f. 64v
21 Mr [Henry] Purcell A Ground In gamut [Z.645] ff. 64r-63r
22 [Henry Purcell] [Britons strike home (from 'Bonduca', Z.574(2/16b))] f. 62v
23   The Base Minuitt [in C major] ff. 62r-61v
24 Mr [Francis] Pigitt A Gigg [in B flat major) f. 61r
25   A Lute Tune [for keyboard] f. 60v
26 Mr [Jeremiah] Clark [An Ayre (in C major)] f. 60r
27 Mr [Jeremiah] Clark Serenade [in D major] f. 59v
28 Mr [John] Barrett Corant [in b minor] ff. 59r-[58]v

Upright format, 305 x 200 mm. 71 folios, foliated in modern pencil as follows: ff. 1-24; then [ff. 25-55] unfoliated; then ff. 56-71 incorrectly foliated as '59-74'. (The incorrect foliation is cited in the inventory above.) Pages with music notation have the following collation. (No attempt has been made to establish a collation for the unfoliated central block of leaves with unused staves.)

  • From front of volume: A10 (= ff. 1-10) / B6 (ff. 11-18) / C10 (ff. 19-[28]).
  • From rear of volume: Z12 (ff. '63-74') / ?Y14 (of which Y1-9 are unfoliated, Y10 is excised, and Y11-14 are ff. '59-62').
Unused ruled staves on ff. 5v and 24r-'[58]'r. Early 18th-century binding of mottled brown leather over boards, gold-tooled with fillets. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark: I.1.10.

Provenance unknown; possibly from the Goodson bequest (on the grounds of absence of an early bookplate). Not listed in any of the 18th-century catalogues of the Christ Church music collections.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 6.