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Selections: MU.MS.264

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Selections
[Collection of 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 (3 leaves upright, p. 1-2, 25-26, 27-28).
Holograph manuscript in ink, written at various times from ca. 1738-1751.
Former classmark: 30.H.14.
Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in October 1978 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. 17 "Fitzwilliam, 1799"

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (60 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

1737 - 1751

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.264
Primary reference Number: 277035
ALMA control 001: 994678413803606

Audit data

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

Associated departments & institutions

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

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