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Selections: MU.MS.263

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

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

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Conservator: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

Description

Miscellany of complete, incomplete and uncompleted works, fragments and sketches,
Folds and single leaves, mostly oblong format (two leaves upright, p. 37-40).
Holograph manuscript in ink, written at various times from ca. 1710-1753.
Former classmark: 30.H.13.
Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in October 1977 by the Cockerell Bindery; the 1890's bindings have been retained.

Notes

History note: Ownership: from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs, signed on p. 49 "Fitzwilliam, 1799"

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (94 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

1710 - 1753

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.263
Primary reference Number: 276998
ALMA control 001: 994658773803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 Updated: Thursday 25 August 2022 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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