A single Bassus partbook. Copied in London by a single scribe, who also wrote LonLP 764. May have been used at Westminster Abbey, the Chapel Royal, or Lambeth Palace. As indicated by the inscription on f. ii_v, on 21 March 1639/40 it was owned by John Finch, at the time Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

f. 224 missing

Original covers of brown leather over pasteboard, gold tooled with decorative designs; blue silk ties now missing.

Paper with two different watermarks: (1) foolscap, with countermark 'F(?) D I'; (2) crown, with countermark 'F(?) D I' . Neither of these watermarks appears in Heawood.

black void mensural

New pencil foliation, i-ix + original ink foliation, 1-254

A few inked initials; no other decoration.

Original index on ff. iii, iv'-vi' groups the pieces in four sections: (1) Preces and Psalms; (2) Services; (3) Verse Anthems; (4) Full Anthems. Within each section, the pieces are generally listed in order of their appearance in the volume (with some errors and inconsistencies). The full anthems are listed more or less in reverse order of appearance.

paper

The volume was listed as no. 385 in Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition, 1909, when it was owned by Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan of Llangeodmore, Cardigan. It was subsequently owned by J. Bunney, Cornwall. Bought by the Bodleian Library as lot 275 from Sotheby's on 8 May 1972. (information from Bodleian Catalogue)

11 Services, 63 anthems, 7 preces-psalm settings = 81

Bull-2, Byrd-10, (Byrd/Gibbons)-1, (Byrd/N. Giles)-1, (Byrd/ Tallis)-1, Cranford-1, (Cranford/Lamb)-1, J. Farrant II-1, R. Farrant-1, (A. Ferrabosco II)-1, Ford-1, Gibbons-10, Gibbons/ (Hooper)-1, N. Giles-7, Hooper-5, Morley-3, (J. Mundy/W. Mundy/ Tallis)-1, W. Mundy [Mr. Mundaie]-1, R. Parsons I-2, Portman -5, Strogers-1, Tallis-5, J. Tomkins-1, J. Tomkins/(Tomkins)-1, Tomkins-10, (Tye)-1, (Weelkes)-3, (M. White/R. White/W. White) -1, (R. White/W. White)-1, anon-1

1 paper partbook (B-ix + 253 folios), ca. 194 x 157. New pencil foliation, i-ix + original ink foliation, 1-254 (f. 224 torn out). Original covers of brown leather over pasteboard, gold tooled with decorative designs; blue silk ties now missing. Original index on ff. iii, iv'-vi' groups pieces in four sections: (1) Preces and Psalms; (2) Services; (3) Verse Anthems; (4) Full Anthems. Within each section, pieces listed generally in order of appearance (some errors and inconsistencies); full anthems listed more or less in reverse order of appear-ance). Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote LonLP 764. A few inked initials; no other decoration. Watermarks (neither in Heawood): (1) foolscap, with countermark "F(?) D I"; (2) crown, with countermark "F(?) D I".

Ca. 1630-40? (presumably approximately collateral with LonLP 764). Copied in London, possibly for use in Westminster Abbey, in Chapel Royal, or in Lambeth Palace chapel services, restarted by Archbishop William Laud in 1633. Apparently owned in 1639 by John Finch (inscription on f. ii').