Description: Oblong manuscript, 17.3×25.4cm. 81 pages, sewn binding, parchment covers with straps on the binding. Book spine: 1 cm. 6 staves per page (pages 3-16); 8 staves per page (pages 17-81). Modern numbered pagination in the bottom right corner, starting at 1; another hand has written a different pagination in the top right corner, starting at 905. Pages 1-2 consist on a set of harmony lessons written in Catalan. The manuscript is a miscellanea of keyboard sonatas by Scarlatti, Domenico Alberti, Francesc Mariner (1720-1789) and Antoni Mestres (†1786), among other local composers.
Rastrum: Pages 3-16: stave span: 1cm; distance between staves: 1.2cm; total stave span: 13 cm. Page 73 (Scarlatti K33b): stave span: 1cm; distance between staves: 0.7cm; total stave span: 14.9cm; length of stave: 22.7cm.
Title: Only the name ‘Joan’ can be read on the parchment cover. The title page is missing.
Copyist: A single copyist for pages 3 to 43.
Comments: This manuscript only contents a fragment of K33b (bars 62-100), and a spurious sonata, KS30, which also appears attributed to Scarlatti in Montserrat 2158, pp. 31-33. K33b also appears in Montserrat 2786, pp. 42-43.
Date: The only date is found on the title of page 42: ‘Tocata Pastoril del Licen[cia]do Joseph Salas 1758’. Nevertheless, some sonatas in the manuscript may suggest a later date (c1765).
Contents:
Title
Pages
Sonata
(No title)
73
K33b (only bars 62-100)
Tocata de Scarlati. Andantino
74-75
KS30
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