Provenance: Chirk Castle Estate Records, 1284-[c. 1852], Myddelton family, of Gwaenynog, Denbigh, Chirk and Ruthin, Denbighshire, London, and Essex.
Description: NLW archival record: ‘One Bundle of manuscript music and copies of tunes, etc.’
Titles: K17 appears on fols. 50r-51v (modern foliation) and is titled ‘Presto. Domenico Scarlatti’, though this originally read Dominico (and was later corrected).
Copyist: Anonymous amateur copyist.
Comments: A collection of several loose fascicles. There are several printed copies of various songs before the manuscript portion of the collection starts.
Date: No accurate date can be given; the printed arias and songs were mostly performed in the mid-eighteenth century.
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