Examination of Goodson's writing and of the structure of the manuscript
suggests both that the keyboard suite movements were copied at different
times and that the quires forming Och 1177 need not have been assembled
in chronological order. Most of the Purcell keyboard movements may in fact
date from the first half of the 1680s, the probable date of other important
Purcell copies made by Goodson; unlike the sonata and fantasia scores in
Och 3 and 620, however, the keyboard movements in Och 1177 derive from
unknown originals. If Richard Goodson is to be identified with 'R. G.',
the author of a dedicatory poem in Orpheus Britannicus II,
he claimed friendship with Purcell and may have had privileged access to
manuscripts now lost.
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