Abstract
THE so-called London Autograph of the Forty-Eight (British Museum Add. MS. 3502I) is a collection of twenty-one separate manuscripts, each containing a Prelude and Fugue from Part II. Three Preludes and Fugues are missing. Mendelssohn examined the manuscripts in I842, and accepted them as autographs. They were then in a private collection; and as neither Mendelssohn nor anyone else seems to have thought them worth mentioning, they long remained unknown to Bach students. They were not used by Kroll for his two editions (Peters, 1862-63; Bach-Gesellschaft XIV, I866), or by Bischoff (Steingraber, I884), or by Spitta. They were briefly described in the first edition of Grove (1887), and were acquired by the Museum in I896. The following remarks appeared in Hinrichsen's ' Music Book' VII (1952), P. 304:
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