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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 14
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • codices (bound manuscripts)
  • Manuscripts, English.
  • Manuscripts, European.
Physical Description:
43 leaves : paper ; 230 x 294 mm bound to 238 x 294 mm
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia], [publisher not identified], [circa 1760]
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.
  • Pagination: Paper, 43; 1-27, [i, 28-85]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
  • Binding: Contemporary boards, completely detached. Paper is fragile and stained.
  • Origin: Written in Philadelphia, circa 1760.
  • Contents indexed in: Richards, Caroline. An eighteenth century music collection. Thesis (M.A.) -- Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 14.
OCLC:
155961610
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