Coll. 170. MS. 85. CANTATAS including three by Luigi Rossi (1597-1653). Italy s. XVII.

Title: Coll. 170. MS. 85. CANTATAS including three by Luigi Rossi (1597-1653). Italy s. XVII.
Uniform title: Cantatas
Date Created: XVII
Date: 1700
Place of Origin: Italy
Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Summary: Paper (Watermark: chapeau with lateral ties and crossed canons in a circle below) i + 203folios(contemporary foliation), 96 x 257 (70 x 222) mm. Collation: quires normally of four leaves, catchwords. Written by one person: folios 2-184, four 5-line music staves, folios 185-200 five 5-line music staves. Ruled with a 5-line rake.Bound in 17th century dark red Italian morocco, double border rules, 4 corner and 1 center gold vignettes. On spine between 3 bands 4 gilt stamps of a flower with 4 leaves. Gilt fore-edges, marble end papers. Boxed.Written in Italy in the 17th century. Provenance unknown. Name (?) on the inside of the front cover in ink "Good". The description of 170/85 in Bond and Faye, Supplement (New York 1962) 539 no. 9 is actually of 170/87. Acquired by UCLA at an unknown date probably after 1945 and before 1963. Microfilmed for the University of Indiana library 17 February 1987. UCLA microfilm no. 7237 bx 1960.
Description: The first leaf of each cantata except no. 16 (folios 185-200) has been excised after the manuscript was foliated. The original foliation is used in this description; the titles in brackets come from the table of contents on folio 201.