Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
Sur la naissance de N[otre] S[eigneur] J[ésus] C[hrist:] Pastorale (Hitchcock 482)
F-Pn Rés Vm1-259, vol. 21, fol. 49-57
Minkoff
The two high-pitched instrumental parts do not bear an explicit instrument designation at the beginning of the piece, but are referred to within the score as «p.[remie]r et s.[econ]d violle».
Shirley Thompson, The Autograph Manuscripts of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Clues to Performance, Thesis, University of Hull, 1997, pp. 64ff.
Shirley Thompson, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the viol, «Early Music», 2004, pp. 497-510
Hugh Wiley Hitchcock, Les Œuvres de / The works of / Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Picard, 1982