Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

1 v. of ms. music ; 33 x 22 cm

Collection of songs, motets and anthems by late 17th and early 18th century British and Continental composers; copied in the early eighteenth century. Some works attributed but most unattributed. 12-13 staves per page; scored for voices and basso continuo (often with figures) and some works also name string or wind instruments. Musical settings are by Henry Hall, John Blow, [Jeremiah] Clarke, Alessandro Stradella, John Allnott, [Giacomo Carissimi], Daniel Purcell and above all Henry Purcell. Many of the songs were taken from works by John Bancroft, Thomas Betterton, William Congreve, Abraham Cowley, John Crowne, Thomas D'Urfey, John Dryden, John Fletcher, [Anthony?] Henley, Sir Robert Howard, Nathaniel Lee, P.A. Motteux, William Mountfort, Katherine Philips, George Powell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Shadwell, Shakespeare (The tempest, Twelfth night and Timon of Athens), Thomas Southerne, Sir Richard Steele, and Nahum Tate. Also, at the beginning of Part I, excerpt from The merchant of Venice, two odes on the death of Henry Purcell (one by Dryden), and a few medicinal formularies; at the beginning of Part II, lines by John Gilbert of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Part I: [6], 1-194, 194-207 p.; Part II: 34 p.

Two music copyist.

Songs and poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.

Table of contents tipped in at the beginning of Part I.

Spine title: Purcell and others.

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Most are in Orpheus Britannicus by H. Purcell.
Zimmerman, Franklin B. Henry Purcell 1659-1695: an analytical catalogue of his music. London: Macmillan & Co, 1963, p. 452 (no. 219).
McWilliams, Elizabeth L. The music manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: a description and thematic catalogue. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, [ca. 1973], no. 11.
McWilliams, Elizabeth L. The music manuscripts to 1800 at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: a description and thematic catalogue. University of Maryland: M.Mus. Thesis, 1974, no. 11.

John Gilbert, Christ's College, Cambridge -- William Penn ("The famous Doctor Penn's Book, 170[?]") -- George Forman, 1717/1721 -- John Ladd of Calne, Wiltshire, 1764 -- Thomas Lea Southgate, Gypsy Hill, Kent, 1890 inscribed and with book stamp -- Sir Frederick Bridge.
Formerly Folger MS 1634.4

Purchased in 1926 by Henry Clay Folger from Frank Marcham & Co., cat. no. 48, lot 96.

Charteris, R. Annotated catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Folger, 100

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Twelfth night.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Timon of Athens.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.

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