Provenance: Former owner: Charles-Edmond-Henri de Coussemaker (1805-1876).
Description: A French collection of eighty-seven keyboard pieces by composers from the eighteenth century, among which is a copy of Scarlatti’s K6.
Title: ‘Del Sig.or Scarlati’
Copyist: The sonata is in a single hand throughout.
Comments: There are several added ornaments and flourishes. The copyist was likely French.
Date: According to the RISM entry this collection is datable to the second half of the eighteenth century.
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