Provenance: Formerly part of a collection by Julian Marshall (1836-1903). Purchased by the British Museum in 1880-1881.
Description: A collection of harpsichord pieces by Italian composers: Marcello, Galuppi, Modenesi, Scarlatti (both Domenico and Giuseppe), Alberti, Guglielmi, Mei, Pampani, Veneti, Nardini, and others.
Watermark: A tre lune motif is visible on some pages. One of the flyleaves contains a circle with what appears to be a flute inside.
Titles: ‘Di Dom:co Scarlatti’ is written at the incipit of the three sonatas by Scarlatti (numbers 15 (K182), 16 (K131), and 26 (K127)).
Date: The inclusion of keyboard pieces by Guglielmi and Mei suggests that this collection was compiled during the second half of the eighteenth century.
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