Details

Subjects:

Harpsichord music.
Music -- Manuscripts.
Music -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.
Music.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

46 pieces for keyboard, chiefly arranged from orchestral music, copied by Francis Hopkinson. Also includes a printed leaf pasted to the inside upper cover; a scale for the violoncello (p. 82); and "A riddle" in 26 lines of verse (p. 84).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from upper cover.
Pagination: Paper, 43; 1-27, [i, 28-85]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Binding: Contemporary boards, completely detached. Paper is fragile and stained.
Origin: Written in Philadelphia, circa 1760.
Contents indexed in: Richards, Caroline. An eighteenth century music collection. Thesis (M.A.) -- Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 14.

OCLC:

155961610

Access Restriction:

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