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Selections: MU.MS.265

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Selections
[Collection of vocal and instrumental music] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Conservator: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

Description

Language: English and Italian
Miscellany of scores and parts of complete works, movements and sections of works.
Folds and single leaves, mostly oblong format (pages 49-66 are in upright format).
Manuscript mostly in the hands of J.C. Smith, senior and junior.
Former classmark: 30.H.15 (on present binding) or 6.I.15 (in Catalogue of music in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge)).
Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in October 1977 by the Cockerell Bindery.

Notes

History note: Ownership: probably mostly from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (108 p., bound) ; 24 x 29 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

1700 - 1751

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.265
Primary reference Number: 276854
ALMA control 001: 994696643803606

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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