Description
Provenance: Former owner: Vincenzo Bovio (1809-1889).
Description: A manuscript collection consisting of three sections containing, in total, forty-six keyboard pieces. Forty-five of these are attributed to Domenico Scarlatti (the forty-sixth is attributed to Giuseppe Scarlatti).
The first section runs from fol. 1v-28r (225x290mm); the second section (225x330mm) runs from fol. 29r-80r and contains all the sonatas of the Essercizi in the same order (here referred to as ‘Toccate / Per Cembalo. Opera / Del Sig: / D: Domenico Scarlati’). The third section runs from fol. 81r-88r and contains only a ‘Toccata Per Cembalo’ attributed to Giuseppe Scarlatti.
The first three pieces are unknown and appear to have no concordances in other extant sources. The source for the measurements of the first two sections is Yáñez Navarro 2015, who does not mention the measurements of the Giuseppe Scarlatti (though they may be similar to the first section).
Titles: The first section is titled ‘Sonate Per Cembalo / Del Sig:r D. Domenico Scarlati’. However, ‘Del Sig.r Scarlati’ as an incipit marking appears in K8b – the first sonata in this collection which is in the Kirkpatrick catalogue – but not over the first three sonatas (or movements). This casts doubt on the attribution of the first three sonatas (or movements). The first and third sections both contain the postscript ‘Finis Laus Deo’.
Despite the ‘Toccate’ marking on the title page of the second section, all sonatas are marked ‘Sonata’ followed by their order of appearance (1:a, 2:a, etc.). The Cat’s Fugue (K30) is titled ‘Fuga moderato / Sonata 30:a’.
Copyists: Copyist 1: sections 1 and 3; copyist 2: section 2.
Comments: Four of the sonatas in section 1 are duplicated in section 2: K2, K4, K9, and K30. Their variant readings show that different exemplars were used for the two sections. The identical order of the first section of Montecassino 5-F to that in Boivin 1 suggests that this printed edition was the model for the first section, while the readings in the second section closely match those found in the Essercizi.
Date: A dating of 1740-1760 is given on RISM.
