The purpose of this project is to catalogue and digitize a collection of French baroque music from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, today preserved in Uppsala University Library. The music mostly consists of stage music of leading French composers from that period, such as Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Campra, Pascal Collasse, André Cardinal Destouches. The full provenance of the collection was previously unknown, but current research shows that it must be considered as a sub-collection of the so-called Düben Collection. That means it has been part of the repertoire of the royal court chapel, and has been used at the Swedish court in the decades around the turn of 1700.

The collection consists of handwritten scores and part books of French provenance, purchased or otherwise acquired in Paris, and by sets of parts copied by the Swedish court musicians. These scores and part books are of great interest for several reasons: firstly, the French material in the Düben Collection contains unique sources of this repertory which are not preserved in France or anywhere else in the world, and secondly the combination of the French and Swedish manuscripts form a completely unique source material for the study of performance practice and performances of French stage music outside France.

Within the project, these sources will be cataloged, digitized and made available as part of the existing database catalogue of the Düben Collection.