Cavalli: Il Xerxe
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:23 am
http://imslp.org/wiki/Il_Xerse_%28Cavalli,_Francesco%29
Since Bassani added one of the mss. from the BnF, it has been merged (in the wiki) with the ms. of BN Marciana - and put before it.
This looks strange to me, because we have two very different mss., not the same! And the BnF one has a restitutor name (Fossard) and date (1695) - this ms. was clearly made after the Italian one (maybe an autograph? see the erasures).
This leads me to one point: contributors of this kind of (very valuable) material should always provide the permalink to the original library.
Since Bassani added one of the mss. from the BnF, it has been merged (in the wiki) with the ms. of BN Marciana - and put before it.
This looks strange to me, because we have two very different mss., not the same! And the BnF one has a restitutor name (Fossard) and date (1695) - this ms. was clearly made after the Italian one (maybe an autograph? see the erasures).
This leads me to one point: contributors of this kind of (very valuable) material should always provide the permalink to the original library.