Scope and Contents A large choirbook containing antiphons of the Sanctorale and the Commune Sanctorum. (i) Sanctorale from the Visitation (2 July) to St Clement (23 November)-front pastedown. It includes 'In festo sanctorum monachorum' (folio 71) and the Presentation of the Virgin (folio 75 verso). There is a lacuna between folios 78 and 79. (ii) Commune Sanctorum (folio 83 verso), including the dedication of a church. It ends with the rubric 'Commemorationes communes seu suffragia sanctorum' and the antiphon...

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The index is written on sheets watermarked 1857 (folio i).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...

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There are pieces dated 1872 and 1874 at pages 132, 134.

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A leaf is torn out between folios 5 and 6.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...

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A leaf has been torn out between pages 70 and 71.

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The index (folio i) is written on sheets watermarked 1862.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...

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Written on sheet watermarked 1851 (for example page 39) and 1852 (page 201).

Pieces are dated between 1854 (page 67) and 1855 (page 167).

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Pieces are dated between 1858 (page 45) and 1859 (page 199).

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Many pieces are dated between 1854 (page 64) and 1888 (page 199).

Pages 17-18, 31-32, 85-86 and 145-146 have been replaced.

The index is written on sheets watermarked 1857 (folio i).

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Written on sheets watermarked 1851 (for example page 3).

Pages 9-12 have been replaced.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...

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Pieces are dated between 1861 (page 7) and 1880 (page 154).

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Pieces are dated between 1862 (page 43) and 1879 (page 127).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...

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Pieces are dated between 1855 (page 3) and 1873 (page 122).

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Pieces are dated between 1854 (folio 1) and 1864 (folio 31).

Two leaves have been lost before folio 1.

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The choirbook consists of a number of printed pieces from various sources bound together, with a leaf in manuscript (folio 179) tipped in.

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The choirbook consists of a number of printed pieces from various sources bound together.

A note, 1869, is at folio 13. Folios 1, 67 and 111, which are torn, have been patched and the missing portions supplied by hand.

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The choirbook consists of a number of printed pieces from various sources bound together. Notes dated 1871 and 1912 are at folios 62 verso and 115. At folio ii is a note, 1973, by the donor recording the names of the trebles when the choir was disbanded following the death of the Duke of Buccleuch in 1914, and the circumstances of the recovery of the books.

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Pieces are dated between 1854 (folio 83) and 1858 (folio 99 verso).

A leaf is torn out between folios 19 and 20. Folios 18-20 and 30-32 are replacements for earlier leaves.

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Pieces are dated between 1854 (page 111) and 1858 (page 195).