"Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. Please could you tell us a little bit more about Ob Broxbourne 84.9. It is not included in the Garland facsimile series, and I was unaware of its existence. ..
Ob Broxbourne 84.9 is a manuscript that I found, or rather Peter Ward Jones showed to me after I nagged him for "more of the same" when digging for William Lawes songs at the Bodleian. The manuscript had been on deposit for a just few years but more or less forgotten. It is a small collection of songs [in a big book, mainly empty], ca, 1660, by Anon. [including English, French, and Italian songs], Henry and William Lawes, Nicholas Lanier, Charles Colman [Coleman], and Francois de Chancy, in the hand of Charles Colman. It appears generally related to portions of Lambeth Palace MS 1041, with one section of MS 1041 in the same hand. Its interest, besides a couple of unique items, are the written-out theorbo accompaniments (in tablature), a good deal of vocal embellishment, and extensive rhythmic variants, suggesting much about performance practice. Paul Agnew and Christopher Wilson recorded the Broxbourne version of Lanier's "Amorosa pargoletta", from my transcription, for their Metronome recordings of Lanier's songs. I wrote a summary description with contents and concordances in the Journal of the Lute Society of America, XXIV (1991), pp. 15-51, and A-R published my edition of Broxbourne 84.9 and Lambeth Palace 1041 in their Recent Researches...Baroque, vol. 105. See http://www.areditions.com/rr/rrb/b105.html There are a few select facsimiles in the edition. By the way, the Garland facsimile omits one page of Lambeth Palace 1041 (the editor states that the recto of the folio is there but the verso is lost - which is a little weird). The facsimiles in the Garland print of MS 1041 are darker than the original, so some detail cannot be read that is clear in the original. [Unfortunately, a different publisher still has my photos (high quality) of the entire Broxbourne and Lambeth manuscripts. A facsimile of the two was planned but fell through after Bob Spencer's death.] GJC
