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Buoy any matches, my matches buoy : John Shaw, near a brandy shop St. Giles's in Tyburn Road sells matches about. [Cadenza] / [George Frideric Handel]: MU.MS.263.p.93-94

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Buoy any matches, my matches buoy : John Shaw, near a brandy shop St. Giles's in Tyburn Road sells matches about. [Cadenza] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric

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Description

Buy any matches, my matches buy
A page folded in four, with one London cry in ink on p. 93, a draft for a soprano cadenza in pencil on p. 94, and various other pencil notes in pencil (usually hard to decifer).
Title from first line and caption of first work, and editorial (2nd work).
Editorial title.
Manuscript in the hand of George Frideric Handel.
A complete transcription of the cadenza is to be found in Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish. A catalogue of Handel's musical autographs (Oxford, 1994), p. 315.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C40)
1.1.1 T Buy and matches, my matches buy A C-4 3/4 4'D4.C8,B/4'CE-/D4.C8,B/2.B//
1.1.1 S [Cadenza?] A C-1 c 2''F4C'A/{8FA}''CF{'FA''CF}/

Contents
[p. 93, line 1] Buoy any matches ; [other pencil notes: top right indeciferable ; below end of line 1: "[S?]carborough" ; down right hand margin: "James Ba...[?] / White ..." ; up right hand margin: "for [or Ma]jor Wright at Lord Walpools" ; by central vertical fold (over lines 9-10): "John / Kipworth [?] / 2 / ...lanville [?]" -- [p. 94, lines 7-10, upside down] [Cadenza for soprano in F major, ending with the words] "L'ab[?]a resistera" ; [other pencil notes: top left corner:] "Opera Arie Duette[?] ; [up left hand edge]: "[?ter]za a [?]lAria [ ... ? ...] [?]registra a Genoa Da [deleted] nella / fonte / 1753"

Measurements and weight

1 ms. (p. 93-94) ; 24 x 29 cm.

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Dating

Production date: AD 1753 : [England],[1753?]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.263.p.93-94
Primary reference Number: 277034
ALMA control 001: 994672603803606
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Audit data

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

Associated departments & institutions

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

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Buoy any matches, my matches buoy : John Shaw, near a brandy shop St. Giles's in Tyburn Road sells matches about. [Cadenza] / [George Frideric Handel]" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/277034 Accessed: 2024-11-25 16:00:24

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