IDENTIFIERS
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id:	276873
accession number:	MU.MS.252

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 1 December 2020
updated:	Monday 1 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Italian arias and cantatas, some incomplete.
Nine fascicles, the first two in the hand of a copyist probably from the 1720's, the rest are holograph, four from the 1710's, and two from ca. 1747.
Includes pages of different sizes, either oblong (ca. 24 x 29 cm) or folio (29 x 24 cm).
Former classmark: 6.I.2.
Ownership: from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs acquired in 1799.
Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in 1978-1979 by the Cockerell Bindery; the 1890's bindings have been retained.
title:	MU.MS.252

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/276873





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1710 - 1747
creation date earliest:	1710
creation date latest:	1747

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric
maker: Cockerell Bindery

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. score (34 p., bound) ; 24 x 29 cm.