Research Catalog

Title

Virginal music, 16th and 17th centuries : Collection of song and dance tunes arranged for keyed instruments.

Author

New York Public Library. Music Division. Manuscript. Drexel 5609.

Publication

[between 1750? and 1775]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hawkins, John, 1719-1789
• Rimbault, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1816-1876
• Drexel collection.

Description

1 score (144 pages); 33 cm

Subject

• Hawkins, John, 1719-1789 > Manuscripts
• Harpsichord music
• Music > Manuscripts

Genre/Form

Scores.

Note

• Manuscript collection, perhaps copied by Sir John Hawkins from Bibliothéque Nationale ms. Rés. 1186 and British Library Add. 10337 (Elizabeth Rogers' virginal book). See Martha Maas, Seventeenth-century English keyboard music, Ph. D. thesis, Yale University, 1969, p. 51-53.
• Title from earlier librarians' description, which is based on description from catalog of the Rimbault library sale.
• Page numbers added by a later hand.
• Dating based on when Hawkins was engaged in research for his book "A general history of the science and practice of music," although he was a music researcher from about 1750. See the entry "Hawkins, John" in Oxford [Grove] Music Online.
• Original binding discarded when volume was rebound on September 17, 1936; in 1991 that binding was discarded and the volume was conserved, with each page being encapsulated.

Indexed In (note)

• Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Edward Francis Rimbault (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microfilm

Provenance (note)

• Formerly owned by Edward Francis Rimbault.

Call Number

Drexel 5609

OCLC

1019909201

Author

New York Public Library. Music Division. Manuscript. Drexel 5609.

Title

Virginal music, 16th and 17th centuries : Collection of song and dance tunes arranged for keyed instruments.

Production

[between 1750? and 1775]

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Edward Francis Rimbault (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge), p. 92, item 1391.

Additional Formats

Also available on microfilm: New York Public Library, *ZB-202 (master negative: *ZZ-80).

Language

Staff notation.

Provenance

Formerly owned by Edward Francis Rimbault.

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Added Author

Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, copyist.

Rimbault, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1816-1876, former owner.

Drexel collection.

Research Call Number

Drexel 5609