91 - LULLY, Jean-Baptiste (1632–1687).

LULLY, Jean-Baptiste (1632–1687). Musical Manuscript, *Cadmus and Hermione*, 1692; one folio volume (38 x 25 cm) containing [title]–194 pages, contemporary fawn calfskin binding, gilded fleurs-de-lis at the corners, gilded coat of arms on the covers, decorated 6-rib spine, red edges (hinges restored). A very fine pre-publication copy. Catalog entry: “Crown of France and its finances, and Superintendent of His Majesty’s Music. In Paris by Mademoiselle Louise Morel. 1692.” *Cadmus and Hermione* was performed at the Jeu de Paume du Bel Air on April 27 (?) 1673, in the presence of the King. While Quinault’s libretto was published that same year, 1673, the score was not published by Ballard until 1719; the overture and excerpts had been published in Amsterdam between 1682 and 1702. This copy by Mlle Morel, in brown ink, is very meticulous and generally features 12 staves per page. The overture is notated on 4 staves; the arias and the 4 parts of the choruses (music and lyrics) are accompanied by a bass line; the ritornellos are generally notated on 4 to 6 staves. The copyist, Louise MOREL, was unknown until now. Hans Schneider, in his catalog *Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke von Jean-Baptiste Lully* (Tutzing, 1981), lists only one copy of *Cadmus et Hermione* [LWV 49] predating ours: a copy by Vignol from 1674, held at the Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra de Paris (A4b); the subsequent copies, by Philidor, date from 1702 and 1703. *Cadmus et Hermione* ends on page 172: “end of *Cadmus*,” notes the copyist, who signs “Louis Morel”; followed (pp. 173–194) by excerpts from Phaëton (the title is not mentioned). Bound with the coat of arms of Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725–1793), who inherited the music collection of his father Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse (1678–1737), the legitimized son of Louis XIV; Count Toulouse had assembled a very extensive music collection with the help of the Philidor family.