The 72-page volume contains sonatas, for various instruments, composed by or attributed to George Frideric Handel.
The words on the cover of the publication are: Sonate da Camera di G.F.Handel.
The first sixteen sonatas (Ia, Ib, and numbers II to XV) were included as part of the HG volume 27.
[citation needed] Each sonata displays the melody and bass lines—with the expectation that a competent keyboard player would improvise the omitted inner parts based on the figured bass markings.
Despite the title, there are five instruments mentioned in the work: the Western concert flute, the recorder, the oboe, the violin, and the viola da gamba.