Add MS 18942

Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson.

Vol. III.

[Add MS 18940-18944]

passim. Collection of airs and dances for 4 viols, in parts, with an additional basso continuo part for harpsichord. In five volumes, containing respectively the altus, superius, medius, bassus, and basso continuo parts.

1-10. Airs, in various keys. 'J[ohn] Jenkins.' iii, ff. l-4b;

11-13. Pavan and Allemande in D minor, and Air in G minor. 'William Lawes.' iii, ff. 5-6;

14-16. Two pieces without titles in C minor, and one in G. '[John] Jenkins.' iii, ff. 6b, 7;

17. Pavan in D minor. This and the remaining pieces, with the possible exceptions indicated below, are by 'Simon Ives.' iii, f. 8;

18, 19. 'The Choyce,' and 'The Choyse Coranto.' iii, f. 8b;

20. Piece without title in D minor. At the beginning of each part are the initials 'H. B.,' but at the same time the name 'S. Ives' is written at the top of the page in three of the parts. iii, f. 9;

21. Allemande in D minor. At the beginning of four of the parts are the initials 'I (or 'J.') L'; the name 'S. Ives' written at the top of the page in three of the parts may refer only to the 2nd composition on the page, which is certainly by him. iii, f. 9b;

22. Courante in D minor, iii, f. 9b;

23, 24. Two Airs in D. iii, f. 10;

25, 26. Courante in D, and Pavan in G minor. iii, f. 10b;

27. Air in G minor. iii, f. 11;

28, 29. Piece without title and Courante, in G minor. These and the remaining numbers have no basso continuo. iii. f.11b;

30, 31. Allemande and Courante, in G minor. iii, f. 12;

32. Pavan in C minor. iii, f. 12b;

33. 'A Humour to ye [preceding] Pavan.' iii, f. 13;

34, 35. Two pieces without titles, the first of them (in C minor) assigned in three of the parts to 'I. (or 'J.') W.,' the other (in C) by 'S. Ives' (whose name is at the top of the page in three of the parts), iii, f. 13b;

36. Pavan in G minor, iii, f. 14;

37, 38. Allemande in G minor, and 'The Fancy' in C. iii, f. 14b;

39. 'The Virgin.' iii, f. 15;

40. 'Mr. Whitlock's Coranto.' ib. 41. 'The Wagge.' iii, f. 15b;