The Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online

F 1.01 Messa sopra l’aria della Monica
Composer: Frescobaldi (disputed)
Key/Signature: G /♭
Scoring: C, C, A, A, T, T, B, B, Bc
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F 17.40 Messa senza Gloria e Credo
Composer: Frescobaldi (doubtful)
Key/Signature: D /♮
Scoring: C, A, T, B, vla, vlne, 3 trb, org
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F 20.04L Ecco l’alba rugiadosa
Composer: Frescobaldi
Key/Signature:
Scoring:
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CANZONI (1645)
Notes: The CANZONI (1645) were published posthumously, and in his preface, the publisher Alessandro Vincenti states that he obtained the pieces only after the composer’s death. He designated the volume as Libro IV, perhaps thinking of the Recercari et canzoni of 1615 and the ensemble canzoni published in 1628 and 1634. Some have questioned the connection between Frescobaldi and these canzonas because of a number of anomalous features [Silbiger (1980-1), 188-189], but most scholars accept them as authentic.
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CAPRICCI (1624-1642)
Notes: The entire content of RECERCARI was appended to the second, 1626 edition of the CAPRICCI. Furthermore, one work from the 1624 edition, F 4.07, was removed. No changes of content were introduced in the subsequent editions of 1628 and 1642, although the later editions differ in small details; see Darbellay (1988). A photographic copy of Capricci (1624) can be seen at: http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/a/ae/IMSLP88760-PMLP181692-Frescobaldi_CapricciBook1.pdf
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FANTASIE (1608)
Notes: The first of Frescobaldi’s canonic keyboard publications was never republished in his lifetime and only a single copy is extant (in Bologna). Fewer manuscript copies survive than for any of the other publications. One of those copies, Berlin L121, was formerly believed to be in the hand of Bernardo Pasquini but that attribution has now been discredited.
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FIORI MUSICALI (1635)
Notes: The FIORI MUSICALI was the last entirely new publication that Frescobaldi saw through the press. A photographic copy can be seen at https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/1/19/IMSLP363773-PMLP181690-frescobaldi_fiori_musicali_1635.pdf
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TOCCATE I (1615-1637)
Notes: The two volumes of TOCCATE were widely distributed and often copied. Their composition and publication histories are, however, complex and confusing. Some of the reported “editions” are merely reprints with a new or updated title page. On the other hand, surviving exemplars of a single edition are not always identical. The following three editions of TOCCATE I are considered distinct sources because of significant differences in their content, as shown here after their short titles: Toccate I (1615): F 2.01 to F 2.12 and F 2.35 to F 2.37, Toccate I (1616): F 2.01 to F. 2.20, Toccate I (1637): F 2.01 to F 2.34. A second edition was issued in 1618 and a third one in 1628, but their content does not differ from the edition of 1616. More details in the cited references, particularly in Darbellay (1988), Hammond (1983) and (2002), Silbiger (2014) and in the critical commentary to the Stembridge 1.2 edition.
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TOCCATE II (1627-1637)
Notes: See the Notes on TOCCATE I.(1615-1637).The following two editions of Toccate II are considered distinct sources here because of differences in their content, as shown below: Toccate II (1627): F 3.01 to 3.40, Toccate II (1637): F 3.02 to 3.38. (F 3.39 and F 3.40 were removed.)
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Ancona 41
Ancona, Biblioteca comunale, Ms. mus. 41

Provenance and Date: Ancona, after 1660
Time Frame: 1650-1700
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Arie musicali II (1630)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Secondo libro d’arie musicali per cantarsi nel gravicimbalo, e tiorba. A una, a due, e a tre voci (Florence: Gio: Batista Landini, 1630)

Provenance and Date: Florence, 1630
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1855
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Arie musicali I (1630)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Primo libro d’arie musicali per cantarsi nel gravicimbalo, e tiorba. A una, a due, e a tre voci (Florence: Gio: Batista Landini, 1630)

Provenance and Date: Florence, 1630
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1854
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Berlin 40615
Berlin, Staatsbibliotek, Mus. Ms. 40615

Provenance and Date: Aspern an der Zaya (Austria), 1655
Time Frame: 1650-1700
Notes: From the Minorite monastery in Aspern an der Zaya (Lower Austria); see Riedel (1987). Inscription on f. 1: “Anno 1655/ Die 19 Aprilis Infra Scripto.”
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Berlin SHM IV.82++ [?]
Berlin, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, IV.82++ [?]

Notes: This appears to be the MS formerly in the Berlin Kgl. akad. Institut für Kirchenmusik, No. 13, as described by Eitner (1904) and Wolf (1919). (Check whether it now resides in the library of the Berlin Universität der Künste.)
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Bologna AA/360
Bologna, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Mus. AA/360

Provenance and Date: Mantua, 1640-1681
Time Frame: 1650-1700
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Bologna DD/53
Bologna, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, DD/53

Provenance and Date: Bologna, late 17c -early 18c
Time Frame: 1650-1700
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Bologna Q/43
Bologna, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Q/43

Provenance and Date: 1630s?
Time Frame: 1600-1650
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Bologna Z/259
Bologna, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Z/259

Provenance and Date:
Time Frame: 1800-1900
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Canzoni (1608)
Canzoni per sonare con ogni sorte di stromenti a quattro, cinque & otto, con il suo basso generale per l’organo (Venice: Alessandro Raverij, 1608).

Provenance and Date: Venice, 1608
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 160824
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Canzoni (1634)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Canzoni da sonare a una due tre, et quattro con il basso continuo (Venice, Alessandro Vincenti, 1634)

Provenance and Date: Venice, 1635
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1870
Notes: According to Darbellay, Canzoni (1634) was not published until 1635 or, more likely, early 1636.; see Darbellay (2002), 2: vii-xiii (xxxix-xliii). The contents of the three publications of ensemble canzonas, Canzoni (Masotti, 1628), Canzoni (Robletti, 1628), and Canzoni (1634) are related, but not identical, and the relationships are complicated. A canzona may appear in just one, two or all three publications, and the versions may be identical, slightly different, or radically different. Their order also differs in each of the publications. Their order also differs in each of the publications. Canzoni (Robletti, 1628) was published in partitura (open score) format, whereas Canzoni (Masotti, 1628) and Canzoni (1634) were published as sets of partbooks.
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Canzoni (Masotti, 1628)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, In partitura, il primo libro delle canzoni a una, due, tre, e quattro voci per sonare con ogni sorte di stromenti, con dui toccate in fine, una per sonare con Spinettina sola, overo Liuto, l’altra Spinettina è Violino, overo Liuto, è Violino, ed. Bartolomeo Grassi (Rome: Paolo Masotti, 1628)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1628
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1869
Notes: The contents of the three publications of ensemble canzonas, Canzoni (Masotti, 1628), Canzoni (Robletti, 1628), and Canzoni (1634) are related, but not identical, and the relationships are complicated. A canzona may appear in just one, two or all three publications, and the versions may be identical, slightly different, or radically different. Their order also differs in each of the publications. Their order also differs in each of the publications. Canzoni (Robletti, 1628) was published in partitura (open score) format, whereas Canzoni (Masotti, 1628) and Canzoni (1634) were published as sets of partbooks.
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Canzoni (Robletti, 1628)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Il primo libro delle canzoni ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci. Accomodate, per sonare ogni sorte de stromenti (Rome: Gio. Battista Robletti, 1628)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1628
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1868
Notes: The contents of the three publications of ensemble canzonas, Canzoni (Masotti, 1628), Canzoni (Robletti, 1628), and Canzoni (1634) are related, but not identical, and the relationships are complicated. A canzona may appear in just one, two or all three publications, and the versions may be identical, slightly different, or radically different. Their order also differs in each of the publications. Canzoni (Robletti, 1628) was published in partitura (open score) format, edited by Frescobaldi’s student Bartolomeo Grassi, whereas Canzoni (Masotti, 1628) and Canzoni (1634) were published as sets of partbooks by the composer himself. A photographic copy of this edition can be seen at:
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Cecilia 400
Rome, Conservatorio di musica Santa Cecilia, Ms. A/400

Provenance and Date: Rome (probably), early 18c
Time Frame: 1700-1800
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Chigi Q.IV.24
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigi, Q. IV. 24

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1636-1637
Time Frame: 1600-1650
Notes: This manuscript is in the hand of Frescobaldi’s assistant, Leonardo Castellani.
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Chigi Q.IV.29
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigi, Q. IV. 29

Provenance and Date: Rome, c. 1608-1637
Time Frame: 1600-1650
Notes: Claudio Annibaldi has identified Frescobaldi as the main scribe of this manuscript, and the works in his hand are now believed to be his compositions,.
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Chigi Q.VIII.205-206
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigi, Q. VIII. 205-206

Provenance and Date: Rome, mostly 1630-1650
Time Frame: 1600-1650
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Collina
Collina, Chiesa parrocchiale di S. Apollinare [no call number]

Provenance and Date: 1680s, the Romagna region (Bologna, Ravenna)
Time Frame: 1650-1700
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Cologny T.II.1
Cologny (Geneva), Biblioteca Bodmeriana, Musik T. II. 1 [or MSS 11637 and 11638?]

Provenance and Date: Northern Italy, 1640-1670
Time Frame: 1650-1700
Notes: In addition to the four listed unica, the MS includes F.2.01 and F.2.06, with some variants, and all of Toccate II (1627), except for the versets and four correnti. The four unica and the two pieces from Toccate I are preceded by the statement: “Seguono altre toccate Dell’istess’Autore raccolte dagl’altri Libri.” At one time this MS was believed to be a Frescobaldi autograph, and a page is reproduced in Reimann (1955), but see Darbellay (1975-1).
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Fantasie (1608)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Il primo libro delle fantasie a quattro (Milan: Simon Tini, & Filippo Lomazzo, 1608)

Provenance and Date: Milan, 1608
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1855
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Florence 2358
Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Ms. D. 2358

Provenance and Date: Medici (Florence), late 17c
Time Frame: 1650-1700
Notes: This MS is sometimes listed erroneously as Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Ms. D. 2534.
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Ghirlandetta amorosa (1621)
Ghirlandetta amorosa, ed. Fabio Costantini (Orvieto: Michel’Angelo Fei & Rinaldo Ruuli, 1621).

Provenance and Date: Orvieto, 1621
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 162114
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Giardino musicale (1621)
Giardino musicale di varii eccellenti autori, dove si contengono sonetti, arie, & vilanelli, a una, e due voci (Rome: Gio. Battista Robletti, 1621)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1621
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 162115
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Krakow [formerly Berlin] 40316
Krakow, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Mus. ms. 40316 [formerly Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Mus. ms. 40316]

Provenance and Date: Brussels, c1609 (for Frescobaldi entries)
Time Frame: 1600-1650
Notes: In late 19c and early 20c literature this MS is referred to by it earlier shelfmark Ms. 191. For many years the MS was believed to have been lost during World War II, although a photocopy was preserved in the Harvard Music Library. In 1982 it was discovered to reside in Krakow. Riedel (1987) states that Krakow 40316 includes 8 fantasias, a toccata, a capriccio, and a “partite,” all by Frescobaldi, but according to the original ToC it contained only 4 fantasias (one now missing because of the missing fols. 61 and 62) and a partite set. The manuscript is in two-staff keyboard notation. Dating from the detailed study by David Smith.
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L’aurata cintia armonica (1622)
L’aurata cintia armonica, arie, madrigali, dialoghi, e villanelle, di diversi eccelentissimi autori, ed. Fabio Costantini (Orvieto: Michel’angelo Fei, e Rinaldo Ruuli, 1622)

Provenance and Date: Orvieto, 1622
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 162210
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Liber II diversarum modulationum (1627)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Liber secundus diversarum modulationum singulus, binis, ternis, quaternisque vocibus (Rome: Andrea Fei, 1627)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1627
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1853
Notes: Published as a set of five part-books: C I, C II, T, B, and Bassus ad Organum. The Cantus II part-book, which also contained the Altus parts, is lost. The edition by Stembridge contains only the complete pieces (15 out of 32), but the not yet published vol. 11 of the PC presumably will contain all pieces.
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Lilia campi(1621)
Lilia campi binis, ternis, quaternis; vocibus concinnata, ed. Giovanni Batista Robletti (Rome: Giovanni Batista Robletti, 1621)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1621
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 16213
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London 36661
London, British Library, Add. Ms. 36661

Provenance and Date: England, late 17c
Time Frame: 1650-1700
Notes: The pieces attributed to Frescobaldi are preceded by 8 pieces (a Prelude and 7 Toccatas) attributed to Bernardo Pasquini. The rest of the manuscript consists of English repertory.
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London 40080
London, British Library, Add. Ms. 40080

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1635-1641
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 20040806149605
Notes: Scribe: Nicolò Borbone. On the title page: “Fioretti d[e]l Frescobaldi”
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Madrigali (1608)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse, 1608)

Provenance and Date: Antwerp, 1608
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: F 1852
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Muenster
Münster, Diözesanbibliothek, Santini-Bibliothek, SANT Hs 1545 (Nr. 1-12)

Provenance and Date: 18 c?
Time Frame: 1700-1800
RISM ID: 451013958
Notes: Inscription “Fortunato Santini” [1778-1861” on title page. Contains a complete copy of Fantasie (1608).
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Munich 1581
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 1581

Time Frame: 1600-1650
Notes: Formerly Codex No 262. Includes copies of F 2.01, F 6.09, and F 9.03-9.06, 9.11-9.13, and F 9.15. Online access to digitial copy at http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0004/bsb00047086/images/
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Munich 5368
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 5368

Provenance and Date: Neresheim, 1661-1682
Time Frame: 1650-1700
Notes: Scribe: F. M. Mettenleiter. Inscription on title page: see Schmidt.
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Oxford 258
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Mus. Sch. d. 258

Provenance and Date: 1677-1678
Time Frame: 1650-1700
Notes: A manuscript copy of Canzoni (1645) in four fascicles, each of which bears the title “Canzoni alla Francese del Frescobaldi” with in addition “Violino p.mo,” Violino 2.0 (15 Novembris 1677”), “Violetta” (20 Novembris 1677”), “Basso(13 Januarij 1678”)
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Paris Bauyn
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Bauyn, Rés. Vm. 674-5

Provenance and Date: Paris, after 1676 (c. 1690?)
Time Frame: 1650-1700
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Ravenna 545
Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense, 545

Provenance and Date: Ravenna, 1630-1640
Time Frame: 1600-1650
Notes: Inscription on title page: “Libro di fra Gioseffo da Ravenna. Opere di diversi Autori, di Girolamo Frescobaldi, d’Ercol Pasquino, Cesare Argentini, Incert’ Autore”
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Rome Doria 250 B
Rome, Archivio Doria-Pamphili, Fondo musicale, 250/B

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1630-1650
Time Frame: 1600-1650
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Sacri affetti (1625)
Sacri affetti, con testi da diversi eccelentissimi autori, ed. Francesco Sammaruco Romano (Rome, Soldi, 1625)

Provenance and Date: 1625
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 16251
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Scelta di motetti (1618)
Scelta di motetti di diversi eccellentissimi autori à 2, à 3, à 4 et à 5 (Rome: Bartholomeo Zannetti, 1618)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1618
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 16183
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Selectae cantiones (1616)
Selectae cantiones excellentissimorum auctorum, ed. Fabio Costantini (Rome: Bartholomeo Zannetti, 1616)

Provenance and Date: Rome, 1616
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: 16161
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Turin Foa 1
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Foà 1 [Vol. X]

Provenance and Date: 1639
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513937
Notes: The Turin MSS Foa 1 through 8 and Giordano 1 through 8, notated in German keyboard tablature, contain some of the earliest copies from the Canonical Publications as well as works on included there. The copies from the publications differ from those in a few small details, most importantly (and interestingly), the addition of frequent cadential embellishments. Felici (2005) provides a tabular summary of the Frescobaldi pieces in the Turin tablatures (Tavola I, pp. 89-95). A digital online copy of Turin Foa 1 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513937&language=it
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Turin Foa 2
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Foà 2 [Vol. IX]

Provenance and Date: 1639
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513938
Notes: See Turin Foa 1. A digital online copy of Turin Foa 2 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513938&language=it
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Turin Foa 6
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Foà 6 [Vol. XIV]

Provenance and Date: 1640
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513942
Notes: See Turin Foa 1. A digital online copy of Turin Foa 6 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513942&language=it
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Turin Foa 7
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Foà 7 [Vol. XV]

Provenance and Date: 1639
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513943
Notes: See Turin Fo1. A digital online copy of Turin Foa 7 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513943&language=itTO026513943
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Turin Foa 8
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Foà 8 [Vol. XVI]

Provenance and Date: 1639-1640
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513944
Notes: See Turin Foà 1. A digital online copy of Turin Foà 8 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513944&language=it
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Turin Giordano 1
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Giordano 1 [Vol. I]

Provenance and Date: 1637-1640
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513945
Notes: See Turin Foa 1. A digital online copy of Turin Giordano 1 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513945&language=it
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Turin Giordano 3
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Giordano 3 [Vol. III]

Provenance and Date: 1639
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513947
Notes: See Turin Foà 1. A digital online copy of Turin Giordano 3 can be seen at http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513947&language=it
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Turin Giordano 6
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Raccolte Giordano 6 [Vol. VI]

Provenance and Date: 1637
Time Frame: 1600-1650
RISM ID: TO026513950
Notes: See Turin Foà 1. A digital online copy of Turin Giordano 6 can be seen at: http://wwwold.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp?magid=oai:www.internetculturale.sbn.it/Teca:20:NT0000:TO026513950&language=it
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Venice 1299
Venice, Biblioteca nazionale Marciana, Cod. It. IV-1299

Provenance and Date: Venice, 19c
Time Frame: 1800-1900
Notes: Scribe: Bernardo Mantuaner. “Canzoni...del celebre Sig. Geronimo Frescobaldi...ridotte ad un moderna & facile lettura da Bernardo Mantuaner.” The reading of many pieces in this collection are problematic. One is not quite sure whether this is the result of incompetence on the part of the composer or of the copyist, or perhaps both.
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Vienna 18491
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Ms. 18491

Provenance and Date: Vienna, 1649
Time Frame: 1600-1650
Notes: Inscription: “Regina Clara Im Hoff anno 1649”
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