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A Bassus Cantoris partbook from a set originally of eight volumes. Copied for the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Items 1-68 represent the original layer, copied by Zacharie Irishe in c. 1643-4. In three sections: (a) services (items 1-28); (b) verse anthems (29-53); and (c) full anthems (54-68). Items 101-127 are anthems copied by Edward Lowe probably in the 1660s (item 121 is attributed to 'Mr Christopher Gibbons', and was therefore presumably copied before 1664, the year in which Gibbons was awarded his Oxford D. Mus). Lowe also emended item 7, replacing pages that had originally been copied by Irishe and were now damaged. Items 201-294 were copied by other scribes during the Aldrich era (i.e. from the late 17th century to c. 1710). Items 301-348 were copied from c. 1710 onwards. See Milsom for full details.
GB-Och Mus. 1224 (Christ Church Cathedral partbooks)
Christ Church, Oxford, England
partbook: 1643-4
| Archive | Christ Church, Oxford, England (GB-Och) |
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| Shelfmark | Mus. 1224 (Christ Church Cathedral partbooks) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Pagination |
| Measurements | 385 x 250 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 195 compositions, 192 from 47 composers, 3 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
blind-tooled brown leather over boards; 20th-century. No trace remains of any earlier binding.
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
two unfoliated leaves, used for indexes of services; three leaves (one bifolio, one single leaf) of smaller paper (330 x 200 mm), mounted on guards; paginated '1-6' in 18th-century ink; principal textblock, originally 166 leaves, paginated by Irishe. Five leaves are now missing, comprising pp. 1-8 and 289-90. See Milsom for full details.
Foliation
pagination
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Index
Original index on front and back flyleaves of each book, with corrections and additions by several later hands; front index lists Services, back index lists full anthems and verse anthems. Modern index taped in at beginning of each book lists pieces in order of appearance, with attributions. See Milsom for full details.
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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33 Services or Service sections, 102 anthems, 1 litany = 136
Aldrich-4, (Aldrich-Byrd)-1, (Aldrich-Carissimi)-1, (Aldrich-R. Farrant)-1, (Aldrich-Palestrina)-2, (Aldrich-Tallis)-3, A. Batten-4, Bevin-2, Bishop-2, Blow-4, Bryne-1, Bull-1, Byrd-8, Byrd/(T. Mudd II)-1, Child-14, (Cob)-1, Cranford/(Lamb)-1, Croft-3, R. Farrant-3, R. Farrant/(Hilton the Elder)-1, C. Gibbons-1, Edward Gibbons-1, Gibbons-10, N. Giles-4, W. Hayes I-1, Hilton the Elder? [Mr. Hillton]-1, Hooper-2, Hooper/(Fox)-1, Husbands-1, M. Jeffries-1, C. King-1, H. Lawes-2, W. Lawes-1, (Locke)-2, Lowe-7, Morley-4, (J. Mundy/W. Mundy/Shepherd/R. White-1, W. Mundy-2, W. Mundy/(J. Mundy/Tallis)-1, (W. Mundy/ Wood)-1, R. Parsons I-2, R. Parsons II-1, Priest-1, Purcell-5, Stroud-1, Tallis-5, Tomkins-6, W. Tucker-1, Walkeley-1, Ward-1, Weelkes-1, R. White/(Hooper/W. White)-1, R. White/(W. White)-1, T. Wilkinson-1, Wise-3, anon-2
5 paper partbooks of an original 7 or 8 (Contratenor Decani-ii + 157 + iii + iv folios, T Decani-ii + ii + 170 + ii + ii, T Cantoris-ii + ii + 144 + ii + ii, B Decani-i + ii + 170 + ii + i, B Cantoris-ii + ii + 165 + ii + ii), 366 x 235. Original ink pagination (Contratenor Decani: 5-362; T Decani: 1-332; T Cantoris: 1-284; B Decani: 1-332; B Cantoris: 9-332). Additional gathering, 327 x 202 (4 folios in T Decani and B Decani, 3 folios in other books) bound in at beginning of each book in 18th century. B Decani book has original covers of brown leather on boards, tooled in gold with inscription "Liber eccles Christi / 3 / Bassus Decani"; modern spine. Other books have new covers of brown leather on boards.
Original index on front and back flyleaves of each book, with corrections and additions by several later hands; front index lists Services, back index lists full anthems and verse anthems. Modern index taped in at beginning of each book lists pieces in order of appearance, with attributions. Main layer copied by Thomas Tudway Senior, a clerk at Christ Church 1643-4, later active at Eton College and St. George's Chapel, Windsor; Tudway also copied CambriU Pembr. 6* and several other manuscripts not within scope of this catalogue. Other identified scribes include Samuel Estwick, Francis Wythie, William Husbands, and Edward Lowe (MorehS). No initials or decoration.
*To be described in the Supplement.
1643-4, with additions between 1673 and late 18th century (MorehS). Copied in Oxford, for use at Christ Church Cathedral.
Vol 4
Physical: In last paragraph, change "CambriU Pembr. 6" to "CambriPEM e.6."
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Sets
MSS 1220-1224, Christ Church Cathedral partbooks
Partbooks · 5 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
Thompson, Robert, and Robert Shay. 2000. Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources. Cambridge.
Boydell, Barra. 1999. Music at Christ Church before 1800: documents and selected anthems. Four Courts Press.
Dexter, Keri. 1999. Unmasking "Thomas Tudway": A New Identity for a Seventeenth-Century Windsor Copyist. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 32: 89-117.
Thompson, Robert. 1994. A Fallacy in Duration? Musical Survival and Revival in Late Seventeenth-Century Oxford. paper read at the Sixth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Edinburgh, 10 July, .
Shaw, H. Watkins. 1991. The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of England and Wales from c.1538. Oxford.
Aplin, John. 1982. Cyclic Techniques in the Earliest Anglican Services. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 35: 409ff. Pages: 416,422,424-34. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Morris, Christopher (compiler). 1978. The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems. London. Pages: 55, 97, 152-6, 247, 255. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Daniel, Ralph T, and Peter Le Huray. 1972. The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660. Early English Church Music, vol. Supplementary Volume 1. London. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Morehen, John. 1969. The Sources of English Cathedral Music, c. 1617-c. 1644. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 347-82, Ex. 98. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Le Huray, Peter. 1967. Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660. London. Pages: 92. Notes: mention of MS.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XXIII, 146, 157. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Le Huray, Peter. 1960. Towards A Definitive Study of Pre-Restoration Anglican Service Music. Musica Disciplina, 14: 167-95. Pages: 171, 186. Notes: physical description (partial).
Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music. London. Pages: XXIII, 129; XXXVIII, 155. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music. London, Oxford et al. Pages: II, xxii, xxxiii-xxxiv; IV, xxix. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Arkwright, G E P. 1915-23. Catalogue of Music in the Library of Christ Church Oxford. Oxford University Press. Pages: I, passim; II, 181-2. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
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