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Mus. 602

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Mus. 602
Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 Grove
Phaëton, tragedie mise en musique par Monsieur de Lully, escuyer, conseiller secretaire du Roy, maison, couronne de France & de ses finances, & sur-intendant de la Musique de sa Majesté.
Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1683
RISM A/I L3002

Provenance: from the Goodson bequest, listed in Clement 1747 as 'Tragedie Phaeton. Monsieur De Lully / Paris 1683 No. 3', and in Malchair 1787 (f. 7) as 'Phaeton 1683'. Pen-trials 'John' on inside upper cover. Stamped with monogram 'DC' (letters intertwined) on p. 1 of the Prologue (sig. a1).

Upright format, 370 x 250 mm. Contemporary binding of brown mottled leather over boards, gilt tooled panels on spine. Clement's number-label has been removed from the outside upper cover. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmarks: H.I.22, then I.VIII.5, then I.8.3. A slip of manuscript music on a printed stave, possibly a detached and now misplaced cancel, is loose between pp. 200-201 of the main text (before sig. Cc1).

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 34.
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