| Description | Leather title piece 'Ellen Bradney, 1769'.
Assuming the title piece to be on the front cover, folios [1-4] (unnumbered) are written the right way up; folios [5-48] (also unnumbered) are written upside down and starting at folio [48]. For the purposes of this description the first four folios are described and then the book has been described from folio [48] back to folio [5].
In an immature hand with many errors.
The following items are in a separate, more professional hand:
ff. [1r] Oh dear! what can the matter be [song]
ff. [1v-2r] Gavot, C major with fingering.
ff. [2v-3r] My heart's my own, my will is free [song] with fingering.
ff. [3v-4] Still in hopes to get the better of my stubborn flame I try [song] with fingering.
'Still in hopes...' occupies two systems of f. [4v]. The remaining two systems of that folio are the opposite way up and form the conclusion of the final item of this list, 'The White Cockade'. The remaining items appear to be largely in one hand with some variations noted below as possible separate hands.
f. [48] [Two unidentified pieces in C major, probably studies] with fingering.
f. [47v] Hymn ['Jesus Christ is risen today'. The tune probably written for this hymn and first published in Lyra Davidica (1708) is here untexted] with fingering.
f. [47r] The Merry Wives of Windsor [untexted piece in 6 / 8] with fingering.
f. [46v] Highland Laddie [untexted] with fingering.
ff. [46r-45v] Gavot in Otho [=2nd movement of the overture to Ottone by Handel] with fingering.
ff. [45r-44v] A Ground, F major.
ff. [44r-43v] Minuet in Sampson [=last movement of the overture to Samson by Handel]
f. [43r] Bedfordshire march.
f. [42v] Duke of Yorks minuet.
ff. [42r-41v] Song - Lads and lasses blithe and gay.
ff. [41r-40v] Gavott in Thomas and Sally [=last movement of the overture in Thomas and Sally by T. A. Arne]
f. [40r] L[or]d Howes minuet.
f. [39v] The faithfull shepherdess - At setting day and rising morn.
f. [37] Song in Midas - In these greasy old Tatters [by T. A. Arne]
f. [36] Song in Cymon Sweet passion of love [by T. A. Arne]
ff. [35-34v] Song in Artaxerxes If o'er the cruel tyrant [by T. A. Arne]
ff. [34r-33v] 'Sweet Willy Ho' [song from Shakspear's Garland. See catalogue number SH/330]
ff. [33r-32v] Song in Artaxerxes In infancy our hopes and fears [by T. A. Arne]
ff. [32r-30v] Song in the padlock Was I a shepherds maid [by Shield]
ff. [30r-27] The Jubilee: a roundelay,. Sisters of the tunefull strain [song from Shakspear's Garland. See catalogue number SH/330]
ff. [26-25v] In vain you bid y[ou]r captive live [from 'The Padlock' by Shield]
ff. [25r-24v] Thou soft flowing Avon [by T. A. Arne. From 'An ode upon dedicating a building to Shakespeare' composed for and first used during the Shakespeare jubilee of 1796]
[See also catalogue number SH/330] Gooch 20902
ff. [24r-23] Water parted from the sea [Song]
f. [22v] Blank
ff. [22r-21v] The Warwickshire lass [Song]
ff. [21r-20v] Song in love in a village - How much superior beauty.
ff. [20r-19v] Song in the maid of the mill - Yeild [sic] who will to forms a martyr [by Arnold]
ff. [19r-17v] Song / Set by Mr Isaac - Thrice has the circling earth...Blest with sense with Temper blest [Possibly B. Isaack]
ff. [17r-16] Song in the capricious lovers - While the cool and gentle breeze [by G. Rush]
f. [15v] Hail politeness.
ff. [15r-13v] Rondeau - If 'tis joy to wound a lover.
ff. [13r-12] The happy shepherd.
f. [11] The new jubilee - Worcester.
ff. [10-9v] Song in Lionell and Clarissa - Go and on my truth relying [by Dibdin]
The title 'I told my nymph' has been written at the head of f. [9v]. This folio actually contains the last line of 'Go and on my truth relying'. The title was clearly written in before the music had been copied. 'I told my nymph' begins on f. [9r]
ff. [9r-8v] I told my nymph.
ff. [8r-7] Ode on spring.
f. [6v] Before Jehova's awful throne [In a hand similar to f. [1r]]
ff. [6r-5v] Poor Madelon [from] The Surrender of calais [by Arnold]
f. [5r] The Breast Knot. The White Cockade [start]
f. [4v] End of previous item.
The remaining two systems of this folio are written the opposite way up. See note at f. [4] above. |