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Add MS 52363

Record Id:

032-002001844

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002001844

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x0003a7

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 52363

Title:

KEYBOARD PIECES, including suites, by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, William Croft, and their contemporaries, as well as Henry Purcell; bef. 1700-1707. Copies, aft. 1704-1707. Includes arias from Antonio Maria Bononcini's opera 'Camilla', produced in London, 1706 (ff. 91b-92), and the pasticcio opera 'Thomyris', produced in London, 1707 (ff. 91b-93). Many of the pieces are also found in Add. MSS. 22099, 34204 and in collections such as A choice collection of ayres for the harpsichord, 1700, and The Lady's Banquet, 1704. Note of ownership of 'Elizabeth Batt 1704' in Gothic script, on f. ii. Purchased from Travis and Emery, Ltd.

Paper; ff. ii+95. 1704-aft. 1707. Oblong quarto. Ink pagination. Marbled endpapers. Former binding (preserved separately) of brown leather, gilt-tooled.

Scope & Content:

includes:

ff. 4b-6b, [13b-14b?], [34?]-35b Raphael Courteville, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. [7b-9b?], 35b-36, 73b-74b, 84b-85b John Barrett, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 10-10b [Robert] King, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. [11-12b?] John Weldon, organist and composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 12b-13, 15-15b, 22-22b, 25b, 41-42, 44, 52 Jeremiah Clarke, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 14b-15, 18b-20b Francis Forcer, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 15b-16, 18 William Byron, 4th Baron Byron; composer: Keyboard music: circa 1700, 1702: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 16-16b, 23-24, 33-33b, 49b-50b, 51-51b, 87b-89 John Blow, composer and organist: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 20b-21, [26-28?], 28b-29b, 38b-39, 83b-84b Giovanni Baptista Draghi, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 24b-25, 58b-62b, 64-64b, 66-70, 71b-73b, 78b-79b, 81-82b, 93b-95b Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Keyboard music: bef. 1693: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 31-32b, [42b]-44, 55b-58, 62b-63, 65-66, 70b-71, 83 Francis Dieupart, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1704-1707: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 45, 45b, 47b-48, 85b-87 William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Keyboard music: bef. 1700: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 77b-78 [Adrien?] de La Croix, composer: Keyboard music: circa [1704-1707?]: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 78 John White, composer: Keyboard music: circa [1704-1707?]: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 89-91b Francis Pigott, composer: Keyboard music: bef. 1700: Copies, aft. 1704-1707.
ff. 91b-92 Antonio Maria Bononcini, composer: Aria, from `Camilla': circa 1706.
ff. 92-93 Giovanni Bononcini, composer: Aria from `Thomyris', by(?),: circa 1707.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002001844

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002001844

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1707

Date Range:

before 1700-1707

Era:

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Custodial History:

Elizabeth Batt: Owned, in 1704.

Exhibitions:

Handel: A Life With Friends, Handel House Museum, London, 1 July 2015 - 10 January 2016

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barrett, John, composer and organist, c 1676-1719
Batt, Elizabeth, former owner of collection of keyboard pieces, fl 1704
Blow, John, composer and organist, 1649-1708
Bononcini, Antonio Maria, composer
Bononcini, Giovanni, composer
Byron, William, 4th Baron Byron, composer
Clarke, Jeremiah, composer and organist, c 1674-1707
Courteville, Raphael, composer, fl 1687-1735
Croft, William, composer and organist, 1678-1727
Dieupart, Charles, composer, fl 1667-1740
Draghi, Giovanni Battista, composer, c 1640-1708
Forcer, Francis, organist and composer, fl 1649-1705
King, Robert, composer and harpsichordist, c 1660-c 1726
La Croix, Adrien?de, composer
Pigott, Francis, composer
Purcell, Henry, composer and organist, 1658 or 1659-1695
Weldon, John, organist and composer
White, John, composer