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volumes in folio; not all about music
indeed, but that science has not been
neglected by the collectors of these
books.
The most ancient MSS. among these
in which music has any concern, if we
except the seven Greek authors published
by Meibomius, which are all here in
MS. are the liturgies and offices of the
church, such as missals, rituals, gra-
duals, breviaries, and psalters, in Greek
and Latin; but of these when I come to
treat of the music of past times. Of its
present state here, I thought I could get
no better information than was to be ac-
quired by going to the opera of Zaide,
which was performed this evening at the
new opera-house adjoining to, or rather
being part of the Palais Royal belonging
to the duke of Orleans. The former
theatre was burnt down about six years
ago, during which time the opera was
performed in the king's palace of the
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