18th century manuscript collection of English glees, anthems, cantatas, marches, minuets, etc.

by Rev. Phocion Henley

$7,500 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Folio 223 x 279 mm . Disbound. Full contemporary calf with decorative gilt border to boards. Musical manuscript in black and occasionally dark red ink on 12-stave rastrum-ruled paper, rendered in an uncommonly clear and precise hand.Approximately 135 pp. in total. Watermark of English papermaker J. Whatman incorporating an image of a crown and GR. 1r-1v: Recit Accompd. ... Ye Woods, & Lakes. Scored for strings, voice, and figured basso

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