BACH (Johann Seba stia n). Autograph manuscript... - Lot 157 - Osenat

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BACH (Johann Seba stia n). Autograph manuscript... - Lot 157 - Osenat
BACH (Johann Seba stia n). Autograph manuscript signed in 2 places "Joh. Seb. Bach ", in German. 2 pp. on the front and back of a 75 x 95 mm leaf mounted in a paper frame, one slit by ink bite. Two receipts for the sum of 5 guilders, one to Martin Simon Hille, the other to Johann Bode, who is in charge of enforcing the pious foundation of Sabina Nathan. The wealthy widow of Leipzig, who died in 1612, had made a bequest in her memory by having a motet for the deceased sung every year on the feast day of St. Sabina in the Lutheran Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig. Johann Sebastian Bach, as Kapellmeister of this church, carried out the task from 1726 to 1749. - Leipzig, October 26, 1743. "Viel erwehntem Nathanischem Legato hat Herr Martin Simon Hille als der Zeit Inspector obbesagt[e]n Legati, heüte dato vermittelst Auszahlung derer gewöhnlichen 5 Gülden abermahlen völlige Genüge geleistet , wannenhero auch morgend[en] Tages in der Thomas-Kirche das Leichen-Gedächtniß abgesungen werden soll ... "Leipzig, October 26, 1745. "Vor gegenwärtiges Jahr hat der itszige Inspector des Nathanischen Legati herr Johann Bode, wegen Absingung eines Sterbe Liedes, vermittelst richtiger Auszahlung der legirten fünff Gülden Meißn [ich] völlige Genüge geleistet, so hiermit bescheiniget u [nd] darüber quittiret wird ... "Bach-Dokumente, vol. 1, Schriftstücke von der Hand Johann Sebastian Bachs, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1963, pp. 201-203, nos. 126 and 128.
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