Provenance: Fondo Noseda (Gustavo Adolfo Noseda, 1837-1866). Noseda – the son of a wealthy merchant – took advantage of the sale at negligible prices of private collections of printed and manuscript music, and between 1860 and 1865 acquired over 10,000 items (of which approximately 8,000 are manuscripts). The Fondo Noseda was acquired by the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” di Milano in 1889. For more information on Gustavo Adolfo Noseda, see here (Italian only).
The title page of this copy reads Toccata per Cembalo | III; its contents are an untitled piece in A major (common time) followed by a Gica in 12/8 (also in A major). The Gigue (KS24) is not in the Kirkpatrick catalogue but has been attributed to Domenico by Giorgio Pestelli.
Rastrum: Stave size: 10mm; distance between staves: 10mm; total stave span: c185mm.
Watermark: Four-legged animal in a circle, with letters VG below. This watermark closely matches FILHISP entry 0049564B (Naples, 1758).
Title: ‘Gica’.
Copyist: A single Italian hand.
Comments: Despite Pestelli’s attribution, the copyist does not mention Scarlatti’s name. A later hand (in pencil) appears to have attributed the works to Alessandro Scarlatti.
Date: Mid-eighteenth century based on the watermark evidence.
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