Possibly from one of the missing partbooks from the Former Caroline set of the Peterhouse partbooks, or may (more probably) be part of a page removed from one of the existing partbooks. The hand and the works are to be found in the Former Caroline set. The first (larger) fragment, is displayed here recto/verso; although the trimming of the edge might suggest the faces should actually be verso/recto, the order of the pieces suggests the current designation is correct. Bears part of Adrian Batten's Holy Lord God Almighty (…almightie: holy holy holy [mighty Lord and God. He] who was and is now and is to come…), with a c3 clef and two-flat key signature; another voice from the same piece can be seen in MS 49 (Cantoris Contratenor I), f. 72. The reverse has a setting of Psalm 133, Adrian Batten's 'O how happie a thing it is' (…[it calls] to mind that sweet perfume [and that costly ointment which on the] sacrificers head by gods precept [was] spent… - this version of the text similar to that found in the Scottish Psalter 1635 (there is also a version of the text in the 1556 Anglo-Genevan psalter)); another voice part from the same piece in the same hand can be in MS 48 (Decani Contratenor) f. 84v. No clefs are visible on this face, but sharp accidentals suggest it may also be c3. The handwritten index of MS 49 (Cantoris Contratenor I), which also uses a c3 clef for much of its music, lists Batten's Holy Lord God Almighty on fols 81 and 82, with a second set of numberings written beneath these: 123 and 144 which probably refers to a renumbering of fols 81 and 82 - several layers of cancelled numberings indicate that the present order of the leaves is not as it was when this index was first written. Holy Lord God seems therefore to have been copied twice into the book, but now only appears once. O How Happy is listed in this index as appearing on 144v, following one of the copies of Holy Lord God, although it is not now present, and it is possible that the fragment is all that remains of a missing leaf from this book, originally numbered 144. MS 48 shows Holy Lord God on f. 84 (with a second copy on 60v) which has O How Happy on the verso, so f. 84 in this book may correspond to the missing leaf with these pieces from MS 49.

The second (smaller) fragment has a blank 'verso'. though it is ruled with stave lines, but the 'recto' has a few musical notes (three bars) on the top line with three bars of rests aligned beneath, concluding with what may be a double barline. The music in the partbooks is not usually barred except in the case of the organ book, but although the alignment may suggest this fragment comes from a keyboard book, the number of rests suggests otherwise: there would be a significant silence in the part if these staves were an upper an lower part of a work, though the alignment may simply be coincidence. In the surviving Latter Caroline set organ book the barring usually crosses the gap between the staves, but not always.

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1) five line stave; 2) two rastrum-ruled staves on each side.

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