Text set / [Miscellaneous collection of music for harpsichord by Henry Purcell and others].

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Title: [Miscellaneous collection of music for harpsichord by Henry Purcell and others].
Creator: Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707.
King, Robert, active 1676-1728.
Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687.
Purcell, Daniel, -1717.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Border, Richard, former owner.
Monson, John Monson, Baron, 1693-1748, former owner.
Contributor: Finney, Theodore M. (Theodore Mitchell), 1902-1978, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1710]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. 3 sheets of tracing paper, containing tracings of the watermarks in this volume are housed in a seperate folder shelved with the volume.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume of harpsichord music by Henry Purcell, Jeremiah Clarke and others. The volume contains 32 complete pieces and a few fragments. The contents are fully described in the article by Robert Klakowich, cited above.
Citation/Reference: Klakowich, R. Harpsichord Music by Purcell and Clarke in Los Angeles. (Journal of Musicology 4, 2 (1985-1986): 171-190)
Condition: Bound in contemporary calf.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Musical works
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: [80] p, bound ;20 x 26 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1n89s
MS.1970.008
Language: English
eng
Subject: Harpsichord music--England--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: On front paste-down endpaper, remnants of the bookplate of W.T.R. Powell, 18th century pen trials and doodles, plus the name "Mary Frederick;" Laid into volume, a letter from Sir Monson to Richard Border, dated 1934, discussing the probable provenance of this volume; the verso of this letter has the bookplate of Theodore M. Finney.
Location: CLUW

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