Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Former owner's title: Quartetti for 2 violins, a violoncello, and double bass
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| Other authors / contributors: | Poole, Anthony, active 1670, composer.
Vitali, Giovanni Battista, 1632-1692, composer.
Colista, Lelio, 1629-1680, composer.
Legrenzi, Giovanni, 1626-1690, composer.
Blow, John, -1708, composer.
Lonati, Carlo Ambrogio, composer.
Mannelli, Carlo, 1640-1697, composer.
Bocaletti, Hippolito, active approximately 1692, composer.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.
Finger, Godfrey, approximately 1660-1730, composer.
Krieger, Johann Philipp, 1649-1725, composer.
University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 959.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
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| Instrumentation: | violin 2 viola archlute 1 continuo
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| Provenance: | Purchased by University of Chicago in 1965 from Leamington Book Shop (catalogue 28, March 1965, page 18).
Volumes 1-4: Former owner's signature on front flyleaf recto: "William Bur Allesley" [or "Allestry"]; manuscript title given in same hand: "Quadretti for 2 violins, a violoncello, and double bass"
Volumes 1-2: Former owner's signature on front flyleaf recto, crossed out: "Chas. A. Wheelwright"; inscription, crossed out, in same hand: "4 vols. [illegible], March 23 '32"
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| Notes: | staff notation
Manuscript in the hands of several copyists.
Title from elaborately decorated title page on front pastedown of each volume.
Work number appears after composer's name on title page.
Place of production inferred from inclusion of English composers and English early provenance.
Dated to the first quarter of the 18th century based on paper watermarks (late 17th- or early 18th-century) and ca.1700 date of composition for Gottfried Finger's op. 5.
Watermark: Strasbourg lily in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4" and letters "WR"; countermark: "IHS" and cross extending from crossbar of H.
Volume for Violino I includes table of contents at end with several false attributions. Contents from RISM.
Shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Library, Ms959.
Binding: contemporary paneled mottled calf over boards, gold tooled with instrument names stamped on front and back boards; rebacked in 20th century.
RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), 110050
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| Summary: | Copyist's manuscript collection of 74 trio sonatas for 2 violins, bass, and basso continuo, with one volume for each part. 24 of the sonatas are by Corelli, the rest by various other Italian, German, and English composers.
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| Other form: | Online version: Corelli, Arcangelo, 1653-1713. Sonate a tre, doi violini, e violone, ó arciliuto, col basso per l'organo, opera prima. [England], [between 1700 and 1724?]
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