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Selections: MU.MS.262

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Selections
[Collection of arias, songs, instrumental movements, sketches and fragments] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Conservator: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

Description

Miscellany of fragments and sketches, including copies of fragments of music by Habermann and Gottlieb Muffat.
Folds and single leaves, mostly oblong format, but two (p. 55-58) upright (29 cm)
Holograph manuscript in ink, written at various times from ca. 1710-1751.
Former classmark: 30.H.12.
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.

Notes

History note: Ownership: from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs acquired in 1799.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (68 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

1711 - 1751

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.262
Primary reference Number: 276972
ALMA control 001: 994653953803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 Updated: Monday 20 March 2023 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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