Mus. 1142a

Manuscript. Early 20th-century guardbook of stiff card and vellum (upright format, 337 x 245 mm.), containing 9 tracts of unrelated fascicles, all English, mid 17th-early 18th centuries. The foliation sequence continues into Mus. 1142b.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 38.

• Mus. 1142a (ff. 1-20). Keyboard book; English, mid 17th century. Three copyists, two of them unidentified, the third Christopher Gibbons.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 21-2). Bifolio (paginated '12-15') from an otherwise unlocated manuscript of scores copied by Richard Goodson Sr, including composing drafts of his own music; English, early 18th century.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 23-8). Fragments from a Latin ode (or odes) by Richard Goodson Sr, in composing score; English, c. 1700.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 29-31*). Unidentified polyphonic work, incomplete at the end, copied in short score by Henry Aldrich; English, late 17th century.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 32-3). Continuo and bass chorus parts for two vocal works by Richard Goodson Sr; English, c. 1700.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 34-7). [Henry Hall Sr], 'Bless Albion, bless thy stars above'; fragment of autograph score of an ode headed elsewhere as 'Song to the Queen'. English, composed 1702-7. For further details, see the remaining fragments of this work now at Mus. 1212(A).
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 38-9). [Musgrave Heighington], ode 'Donec gratus'. Incomplete composing score, autograph. English, early 18th century. For autograph sketches for this work, see Mus. 363, starting at f. 45r.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 40-41). Suite in d minor for harpsichord (Allemande, Courante, Menuet, Air Amor, Air Cross), with the following heading on f. 40: 'Allemande for the Harpsichord Henry Thornowitz to your Honours desire to which I am Extraordinary plased'. Presumably autograph. English, early 18th century.
• Mus. 1142a (ff. 42-5). [John Christopher] Papush [= Pepusch], [Sonata] '8/ For Two Fluts and Bass in F'. Incomplete set of two instrumental parts. Copyist unidentified; English, first quarter of 18th century.