French violin music.

notated in brown ink, in three or more hands, on four two-stave systems per page, mainly dance movements for violin and bass, some but not all arranged into pairs and suites, including one violin suite in D minor ascribed to Abaco, and others in E minor, D major, and G major, the dance movements named as allemandes, arias, sarabandes, correntes, gigas, gavottes, together with largos, 'gratsiosos',  vivaces and adagios, a few sections notated in French violin clef, occasionally calling for double-stopping, some indications of notes inégales,  and also including sections for keyboard and for voice (some in style brisé, using soprano clefs);  with, at the start of the volume, three airs for soprano and bass voices notated without accompaniment ("Un jour au feu des beaux yeux"), and at the end, inverted, "Recueil de differens Airs Pour la flûte", comprising ten pages, probably added later



195 pages in all, oblong 4to, (21 x 28.5cms), contemporary pagination at the start of the volume, contemporary mottled calf, red-gilt label to spine, worn, some browning,

The manuscript includes pieces written in a contrapuntal Italian style, together with others in French style influenced by keyboard music.