Harpsichord

Name:

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

Timespan:

18th century

Date:

1760

Description:

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).

Language:

English

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; books

Physical Description:

43 leaves : paper; 230 x 294 mm bound to 238 x 294 mm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 14