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Add MS 50859

Record Id:
032-002084577
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002084577
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000041
LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 50859
Title:

BASS PART-BOOK containing services by Dr John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Dr Henry Aldrich, Henry Purcell, Dr William Child, Thomas Tallis, and anthems by William Byrd and Thomas Tallis; circa 1685. Unfinished. See ff. 36b-40. Preceded (f. 1) by an incomplete table of services and followed (f. 41 reversed) by the heading for an intended table of anthems. (1) Morning and Evening Services in G by Dr John Blow, with two settings of the Kyrie and Creed, the first (ff. 2, 2b) being the setting in Triple time to which the note on f. 4b refers. Items (1)-(3), (5)-(7) published in Boyce's Cathedral Music, 1760-78. ff. 2-6b;- (2) Morning and Evening Services in A by Dr John Blow. ff. 6b-11;- (3) Morning and Evening Services in E minor by Dr John Blow. ff. 11b-16;- (4) Morning and Evening Services in E minor by Pelham Humfrey. Published in Musica Britannica, xxxv, 1972, pp. 84-119. ff. 16b-20b;- (5) Morning and Evening Services in G by Dr Henry Aldrich. ff. 21-25;- (6) Morning and Evening Services in B flat by Henry Purcell, excluding the alternative canticles sometimes called the Second Service in B flat. See F. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell, 1963, p. 107. ff. 25-29b;-

(7) Morning and Evening Services in D by Dr William Child. ff. 30-34b;-

(8) Short Service in D by Thomas Tallis. Music incomplete. Early English Church Music, xiii, rev. P. Doe, 1974. Items (8)-(10) published in Barnard's Church Musick, 1641. ff. 35-38;- (9) Anthem, 'I call and cry', by Thomas Tallis. Text only. Published as 'O sacrum convivium' in Cantiones Sacrae, 1575. Early English Church Music, xii, rev. P. Doe, 1974. ff. 40-39b reversed;- (10) Anthem, 'O Lord turn thy wrath' and second part, 'Bow thine ear', by William Byrd. Music incomplete. Published as 'Ne irascaris' and 'Civitas sancti tui' in Cantiones Sacrae, 1589. ff. 40b, 40 reversed. Note by Roger North on f. 1b, 'This is ye book wch my ld Keeper [Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford] bespoke of a child of ye Kings Chappel [Chapel Royal], & was pay'd. 1l. 10s. for since his death' in 1685. Descended to Katherine Anne, eldest daughter of Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford; she married Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie (bookplate, f. i), 1789. Phillipps MS. 2514 (notes by Sir Thomas Phillipps, f. 1b). From the collection of Richard Border (Sotheby's sale-cat., 9-10 Apr. 1962, part of lot 105).

Paper; ff. i+41. Folio. Circa 1685. Brown calf binding, gilt-tooled, late 17th cent.

Scope & Content:

includes:

  • f. i Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie: Bookplate: early 19th cent.
  • f. 1b Roger North, son of Dudley, 4th Baron North: Note by,: aft. 1685.
  • ff. 2-16 John Blow, composer and organist: Services: 1685: Copies.
  • ff. 16b-20b Pelham Humfrey, alias Humphrey; lutenist and composer: Services: 1685: Copies.
  • ff. 21-25 Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; composer: Services: circa 1685: Copies.
  • ff. 25-29b Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Services: 1685: Copies.
  • ff. 30-34b William Child, organist and composer; d.1697: Services: 1685: Copies.
  • ff. 35-40 Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Service and anthem: circa 1685: Imperf. copies.
  • ff. 40, 40b William Byrd, composer: Anthem: 1685: Copy. Imperf.

Collection Area:
Music Collections
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002084577
Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
032-002084577
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1680
End Date:
1690
Date Range:
c 1685
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Sir Thomas Phillipps, Baronet; of Middle Hill: Owned, aft. 1823.

Richard Border, of Pulborough: Owned, until 1962.

Former External References:
Phillipps MS 2514
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, composer, 1648-1710
Blow, John, composer and organist, 1649-1708
Border, Richard, of Pulborough
Byrd, William, composer
Child, William, organist and composer, d1697
Douglas, Sylvester, 1st Baron Glenbervie, lawyer, politician and diarist, 1743-1823
Humfrey, Pelham, lutenist and composer al Humphrey
North, Roger, son of Dudley 4th Baron North
Phillipps, Thomas, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts, 1792-1872,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083446892
Purcell, Henry, composer and organist, 1658 or 1659-1695
Tallis, Thomas, composer and organist, c 1505-1585