IDENTIFIERS
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id:	253484
accession number:	MU.379

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 12 October 2020
updated:	Thursday 17 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Prophetess
History of Dioclesian
Libretto by T. Betterton from Fletcher and Massinger's The prophetess (c.f. New Grove, 15:469); also attributed to F. Beaumont.
First performed in London at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, May 1690.
Masques with music Scores. Operas Scores. Incidental music Scores. Incidental music Scores. fast (OCoLC)fst01905812 Operas Scores. fast (OCoLC)fst01046228
title:	The vocal and instrumental musick of the prophetess, or, The history of Dioclesian / composed by Henry Purcell, organist of their majesties chappel, and of St. Peters Westminster.

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Received bound in full speckled brown calf with blind double-line tooling (sample preserved). Conserved and rebound in quarter morocco leather with Cockerell paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in September 1981.UkCU-FWM


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/253484





CATEGORIES
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category: printed music

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Purcell, Henry

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 score ([4], 173 pages) ;36 cm; 1 score ([4], 173 pages) ;36 cm;