D-WRgs, Weimar, Goete-Schiller-Archiv
Copy of BWV 787 - 801

1. Appearance
Shelfmark                              Hs. 3. Goethe-Notensammlung Nr. 431a
Extent 16 leaves
Measurement, in cm 35,5-36 x 21-22
cover 35 x 21
Rastrology 0,9
Paper/Watermark cover and sheet 6 + 7: monogram 'FR'
other sheets: eagle with Z in a shield
Cleffing soprano clef/bass clef
Safe-keeping/Quire/Foliation 8 sheets
Scribe unknown scribe
Dating
2nd half of 18th century

2. Contents
Arrangement                          title page: f. 1r
BWV 787: f. 3v (mm. 1 - 18a) and  f. 2r (mm. 18b - 21)
BWV 788: f. 2v (mm. 1 - 18a) and  f. 3r (mm. 18b - 32)
BWV 789: f. 5v (mm. 1 - 17a) and  f. 4r (mm. 17b - 25)
BWV 790: f. 4v (mm. 1 - 15) and  f. 5r (mm. 16 - 23)
BWV 791: f. 7v (mm. 1 - 27) and  f. 6r (mm. 28 - 38)
BWV 792: f. 6v (mm. 1 - 28) and  f. 7r (mm. 29 - 41)
BWV 793: f. 9v (mm. 1 - 22) and  f. 8r (mm. 23 - 44)
BWV 794: f. 8v (mm. 1 - 17) and  f. 9r (mm. 18 - 23)
BWV 795: f. 11v (mm. 1 - 18) and  f. 10r (mm. 19 - 35)
BWV 796: f. 10v (mm. 1 - 22) and  f. 11r (mm. 23 - 33)
BWV 797: f. 13v (mm. 1 - 42) and  f. 12r (mm. 43 - 72)
BWV 798: f. 12v (mm. 1 - 19a) and  f. 13r (mm. 19b - 31)
BWV 799: f. 15v (mm. 1 - 38) and  f. 14r (mm. 39 - 64)
BWV 800: f. 14v (mm. 1 - 17a) and  f. 15r (mm. 17b - 24)
BWV 801: f. 1v (mm. 1 - 22) and  f. 16r (mm. 23 - 38)
f. 16v: blank
Title page "15. / Sinfonis / per il / Cembalo / Dele Sigl Sebastian Bach"
Titel-heading "Sinfonia" in each case

3. Miscellaneous
Foreign/later entries                foliation (with pencil); beneath the title-heading number of the respective sinfonia (with pencil);
in the 14th sinfonia an alto clef was added in m. 4 before the last three notes, because they are notated too high, at the end of the measure there was added a basso clef (with pencil)
Condition of source moderate (partly heavy bleed-through, water stains, cover ripped and sticked in the fold)
Provenance ? - C. F. Zelter? - J. W. von Goethe - Goethe-Nachlaß - Stiftung Graf Leo Henckel von Donnersmarck und F. Vulpius - Goethe Nationalmuseum (1885) - Weimar, Goethe-Schiller-Archiv
Literature Wisso Weiß: Zum Papier einiger Bach-Handschriften in der Goethe Notensammlung, in: Bachiana et alia Musicologica, Kassel, Basel, London, New York 1983, p. 350f.


03.05.07