Christ Church Music Catalogue
Mus. 763Two manuscripts, bound together. (1) Motets by Giovanni Battista Bassani, copied in short score (voice and continuo) by James Talbot; English, late 17th century. For details of the instrumental parts for these motets, also copied by Talbot, see below. (2) A motet attributed to Carissimi; originally a set of three performing parts enclosed within a paper wrapper, of which only one performing part is present here ('p. 54'), together with the original paper wrapper. Copyist unidentified, possibly English, c. 1700. For details of the other performing parts for this motet, see below. Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
Upright format, 333 x 205 mm. The body of this manuscript, in its present state, was used for copying by James Talbot, and comprises 28 folios; they bear Talbot's pagination '1-53', but no modern foliation. Small adjustments to the pagination system were made in August 1990, and will not be present in microfilms made before that date. Collation of the leaves is unclear because of the tightness of the binding. Between pp. 10 and 11 there is an inserted folio (previously folded) that is now paginated '10a/10b'. The verso of 'p. 51' has unused ruled staves, and is unpaginated. Talbot's text-block is now enclosed in an unrelated 18th-century wrapper of thick paper (see below), together with a sheet (now p.'54') that belongs with that wrapper. Bookplate 2 on the inside upper paper wrapper. Early 20th-century binding of thick card and vellum. 19th-century shelfmark: K.3.68. Provenance: at least partly and probably wholly from the Aldrich bequest. The motet attributed to Carissimi ('p. 54') and its wrapper can be matched with the entry in Archives 1717, item H11, which reads 'A Latin Hymn'; the wrapper itself bears the shelfmark 'H.11', and is annotated (in an unidentified 18th-century hand) as 'Non Turbetur &c à2. Canto è Basso. con il Basso per l'Organo. di Giac. Charissimi'. By the central decades of the 18th century, this wrapper must also have enclosed Talbot's manuscript. In Archives 1717, the words 'A Latin Hymn' were deleted, and replaced by 'Mottetti di Signr Bassani'; in Dowding (main hand), the entry has been emended to read: 'Latin Hymn. / à 2. MS. Bassani'; and on the upper wrapper of Mus. 763 itself, the original annotation has been deleted, and replaced (by unidentified hands) with 'Not Carissimi' and 'Bassani v. P.1'. Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 50. For the two additional performing parts of 'Non turbetur' that were formerly enclosed within the paper wrappers, see Mus. 688, sheets e-f.
For manuscript performing parts of the works by Bassani, also
copied by Talbot, see the following:
For a printed edition of the works by Bassani copied by Talbot, see Mus. 163-6. For a full list of music manuscripts at Christ Church copied by James Talbot, see the entry for Mus. 1152.
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