Mus. 838-40

Printed. Three performers' parts from a set of four (lacking Basso continuo).

Mus. 838-40 Bassani, Giovanni Battista, ca. 1650-1716 Suonate a due, tre instrumenti, col basso continuo per l'organo da Gio. Battista Bassani maestro di capella dell' illustrissima Accademia della Morte di Ferrara, & Accademico Filarmonico. Opera quinta. Antwerp: Appresso Henrico Aertssens, 1691 RISM A/I B1173 Mus. 838: Violino primo; Mus. 839: Violino secondo; Mus. 840: Violoncello.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item I31, as 'Another piece of Battista Bassani Op. 5ta. 3 Books', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as 'Sonate di Bassano à 2. 3. Stromenti. Opera 5ta'.

Upright format, 320 x 195 mm. Early C18th wrappers of thick grey paper; each partbook is now stitched into a folder of modern card and mounted impermanently on cords within an early C20th folder of stiff card and vellum. Original upper wrappers annotated in an unidentified hand, early C18th: 'Sonate da Bassani opera quinta', together with the part-name. Shelfmark 'I.31' on outside original upper wrappers of Mus. 838-9, and on inside original upper wrapper of Mus. 840. Bookplate 2 in all three volumes. C19th shelfmarks: K.4.52-4.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 46.
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