Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Harpsichord

Authors

• Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

Call number

Ms. Codex 14
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1447442
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1447442

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

circa 1760

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

46 pieces for keyboard, chiefly arranged from orchestral music, copied by Francis Hopkinson. Also includes a printed leaf pasted to the inside upper cover; a scale for the violoncello (p. 82); and "A riddle" in 26 lines of verse (p. 84).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from upper cover.
   
• Contents indexed in: Richards, Caroline. An eighteenth century music collection. Thesis (M.A.) -- Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 230 x 294 mm. bound to 238 x 294 mm

Foliation

Paper, 43; 1-27, [i, 28-85]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards, completely detached. Paper is fragile and stained.

Subjects topical

• Harpsichord music
• Music--Manuscripts
• Music--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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