Cap. VI/1/1
A tall folio music book, in probably several hands, written from both ends, 414 pages (including numerous blanks), in old half-calf marbled boards. c.1680-1700s.
Booklabel of Io: Walter Ano 1650. An affixed label inscribed ‘Jo: Walter: His Book Anno Domino 1680’: i.e. John Walter, organist at Eton College (in 1681-1704) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7). Among the muniments of Chichester Cathedral.
This MS recorded in Wyn K. Ford, ‘The Chapel Royal at the Restoration’, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100). For a discussion of this and other MSS in Walter's hand (with facsimile examples), see Bruce Wood, ‘A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists’, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.
pp. 24-63
• DrJ 192: John Dryden, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 (‘From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Giovanni Battista Draghi, untitled.
First published (as a single half-sheet) in London, 1687. Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 538-9. California, III, 201-3. Hammond, III, 185-91. The original musical score by Giovanni Baptista Draghi (c.1640-1708) discussed in Ernest Brennecke, Jr, ‘Dryden's Odes and Draghi's Music’, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1-36.
pp. 79-80
• CoA 37: Abraham Cowley, Christs Passion, Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford (‘Enough, my Muse, of Earthly things’)
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed ‘Song’.
This MS discussed in Wyn K. Ford, ‘The Chapel Royal at the Restoration’, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100), and in Bruce Wood, ‘A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists’, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 402-4.
Musical setting by Henry Bowman published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (Oxford, 1679).
pp. 88-104
• SdT 39: Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater
Copy of the ‘Masque in Timon of Athens. Set by Mr. H: Purcell’.
First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.
pp. 408-401 rev.
• CoA 51: Abraham Cowley, The Complaint (‘In a deep Vision's intellectual scene’)
Copy (words only), headed ‘Song’.
This MS discussed in Wyn K. Ford, ‘The Chapel Royal at the Restoration’, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100), and in Bruce Wood, ‘A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists’, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 435-40. Sparrow, pp. 169-74.
pp. 411-410 rev.
• CoA 96: Abraham Cowley, Honour (‘She Loves, and she confesses too’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘A Song upon a Ground: Made 1680’.
This MS discussed in Wyn K. Ford, ‘The Chapel Royal at the Restoration’, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100), and in Bruce Wood, ‘A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists’, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.
First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 144-5. Sparrow, p. 145. Collected Works, II, No. 79, pp. 116-17.
Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 156-8.