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Mus. 49 (pp. 192-9)

Manuscript. [Orlando Gibbons], 'Behold thou hast made my days', copied in score by Francis Smith. English, 1690s.

Upright format, 315 x 200 mm. Two nested bifolios; 4 folios in total. Now bound into Mus. 49, a late 18th-century guardbook bound in white parchment over boards; pagination is modern.

Provenance unknown, but presumably from either the Aldrich or the Goodson bequest.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 6.


Jonathan P. Wainwright, Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-1670) (Aldershot and Brookfield VT, 1997), pp. 378-82. Find in a Library