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  • 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.

    • DrJ 192 pp. 24-63

      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 & Hopkins, 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.

      John Dryden, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 ('From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony')
    • CoA 37 pp. 79-80

      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).

      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')
    • SdT 39 pp. 88-104

      Copy of the Masque in Timon of Athens. Set by Mr. H: Purcell.

      First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.

      Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater
    • CoA 51 pp. 408-401 rev.

      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.

      Abraham Cowley, The Complaint ('In a deep Vision's intellectual scene')
    • CoA 96 pp. 411-410 rev.

      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.

      Abraham Cowley, Honour ('She Loves, and she confesses too')

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