FROM CARD: "PROBABLY ITALIAN. WORDS "TERZETTO" AND "DUETTO" APPEAR HEADING COLUMNS. RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BROWN AND BLACK INKS USED." GRACE COHEN GROSSMAN (1997) DATES THIS MANUSCRIPT TO 1766 AND DESCRIBES IT AS A COPY OF AN ORIGINAL CANTATA WRITTEN FOR THE SIMHAT TORAH FESTIVAL. SEE PUBLICATION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Illustrated in Grossman, Grace Cohen and Richard Eighme Ahlborn, 1997, "Judaica at the Smithsonian: Cultural Politics as Cultural Model" Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology. Vol. 52, p. 120-121