Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, and René de Bousset

with two title-pages, the first "Cantates françoises, sur sujets tirez de l'Ecriture, a voix seule et a deux voix avec Simphonie et sans Simphonie..composées par Mademoiselle De La Guerre" (comprising 12 cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet, together with 3 airs, including 'Ruisseaux qui serpente' from Montéclair's Jepthé), and the second "Premier et Second Receuil [sic] de Cantates spirituelles composées par Monsieur De Bousset" (comprising 9 cantatas), notated for voice, violins and bass, in brown ink on up to twelve staves per page, with some differences from the editions and with ornamentation added, dated by the scribe on the first title: "copié le 16e Septembre 1760", 314 pages (paginated 175 and 135), c.4to (c.25 x 20cms), contemporary calf, gilt arms to cover with 3 pine-cones [cf Olivier plates 2222-2226], spine in compartments with 3 pine-cones, later pencil note identifying Le Sieur De Launay-Nevet of Brélévenez (Brittany),  pagination cropped by the binder , worn with old repairs to spine and corners

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This is the only early manuscript source for the cantatas of Elisabeth Jacquet and René de Bousset.  Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) was one of the foremost women composers, admired by Louis XIV and Titon du Tillet.  Her twelve sacred cantatas were published in 1708 [RISM J 238]: this manuscript  corrects some errors and adds ornamentation. Copies of René de Bousset's cantatas (1735-1740) are recorded only in the Bibliothèque nationale (RISM B3927 & B3928 (one copy only)).  For details of the differences between this manuscript and the editions, see A. Rose, 'A newly-discovered source', in Early Music 36, pp.245-264 . For Titon du Tillet's encomium of Elisabeth Jacquet (1732), please see lot 126.