Coimbra

Description

Provenance: Unknown. A librarian’s hand on the title page reads: ‘Da Livraria do Real Mosteyro de S.ta Cruz de Coimbra’.

Description: Large oblong (27x35cm) volume, undated, but possibly copied out in the 1720s (Sheveloff 1970Sheveloff, Joel Leonard. 1970. ‘The Keyboard Music of Domenico Scarlatti: A Re-Evaluation of the Present State of Knowledge in the Light of the Sources’. PhD dissertation, Brandeis University. ). Fully described by Macario Santiago Kastner in his edition of Seixas’s keyboard works.

Titles: Four keyboard sonatas by Scarlatti are presented here under the title ‘Tocata 10. Del Sig:r Doming Escarlate’. Incipit markings (in order): ‘All.o’, ‘Fuga’, ‘Giga | all.o’, ‘Minuet’.

Copyist: The entire collection is in a single professional hand.

Comments: According to Sheveloff 1970Sheveloff, Joel Leonard. 1970. ‘The Keyboard Music of Domenico Scarlatti: A Re-Evaluation of the Present State of Knowledge in the Light of the Sources’. PhD dissertation, Brandeis University. ‘the provenance of this manuscript suggests possible compilation during Scarlatti’s stay in Portugal’. The final Minuet, K94, is unique to this source; the others can all be found in Venice 1742, though the Coimbra versions are very different from those found in Venice 1742. K94 is markedly different from the Minuet attached to K78‘s Gigha in Venice 1742.

Date: This collection was initially dated to the 1720s; Alvarenga 2009Alvarenga, João Pedro d’. 2009. ‘Some Preliminaries in Approaching Carlos Seixas’ Keyboard Sonatas’. In Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music 7:13. Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Bologna, 95-128. dates this manuscript to the mid-eighteenth century.