Parte prima, Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo ... opera quinta ; Parte seconda, Preludii, allemande, correnti, gighe, sarabande, gavotte e follia / da Archangelo Corelli da Fusignano.

Record ID: 
313944
Accession number: 
PMC 2102
Creator: 
Corelli, Arcangelo, 1653-1713.
Title: 
Parte prima, Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo ... opera quinta ; Parte seconda, Preludii, allemande, correnti, gighe, sarabande, gavotte e follia / da Archangelo Corelli da Fusignano.
Uniform title: 
Sonatas, violin, continuo, op. 5
Published: 
[Roma] : Incisa da Gasparo Pietra Santa, [1700].
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2008.
Notes: 

"Dedicate all altezza serenissima elettorale di Sofia Carlotta Elettrice di Brandenburgo Principessa di Brunswich et Luneburgo Duchessa di Prussia e di Magdeburgo Cleves Giuliers Berga Stetino Pomerania Cassubia e de Vandali in Silesia Crossen Burgravia di Norimberg Principessa di Halberstatt Minden e Camin Contessa di Hohenzollern e Ravenspurg Ravenstain Lauernburg e Buttau"--t.p.
With separate t.p. for the Parte seconda on p. 40; engraved by P. Cervini.
Illustrated frontispiece with two coats of arms on a shield on a trophy: "Antonio Meloni invent. et del." ; "Girolamo Frezza, sculp."
Engraved.
1st ed., earliest issue.
Includes address to Sofia, Electress of Brandenburg, from Arcangelo Corelli, dated 1 January, 1700.
Actual pagination: integral blank conjugate with front., 2 numbered leaves, 3-68 p.

Provenance: 

Henry Prunières (bookplate)

Associated names: 

Meloni, Francesco Antonio, 1676-1713, artist.
Frezza, Giovanni Girolamo, 1659-1743, engraver.
Cervini, Pietro, engraver.
Prunières, Henry, 1886-1942, former owner.

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Department: 
Music Manuscripts and Printed Music
Music Collection: 
Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection