Toccate per cembalo : per bene principiare a sonare, et al nobile partamento delle mani : si averte al discepolo studioso di ponere le dita in quelle segni, che li vengono accennate dalle mani / del Sig. Cavaliere Alessandro Scarlatti, primo maestro della Real Cappella di Napoli.Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-17251723Copyist's ms., in ink; on leaf 139: Napoli 1723.For fuller description, list of contents, and thematic catalog, see P.T. Lee's The keyboard style of Alessandro Scarlatti. (Thesis (M.A.) Yale, 1959).Gift of the Library Associates, 1953.Known as "The Higgs Manuscript", this volume was formerly owned by H.M. Higgs, Esq.The 4 unnumbered leaves at end contain no music.The whole of the ms. was published by J.S. Shedlock (London : Bach & Co.) in 1908-1910.notated music