IDENTIFIERS
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id:	278741
accession number:	MU.402

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 15 December 2020
updated:	Monday 25 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: HWV 64, oratorio for SATTB soli, SATB chorus and orchestra.
Libretto probably by T. Morell.
Engraved throughout, except letterpress list of subscribers (3 p.).
With frontispiece portrait of "George Frideric Handel" by "J. Houbraken, sculps. Amst." with a scene below engraved by Hubert François Gravelot -- page [2] of preliminary pages
"A list of subscribers" - pages [5]-[7] of preliminary pages.
"Index" - page [9] of preliminary pages.
Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on title page: "Fitzwilliam, 1799". 
Received bound in royal blue paper spine with marbled paper sides (sample preserved). Rebound in quarter goatskin with marbled sides and vellum tips, with original paste-downs retained by Angela James, 1981.
Former shelf mark: 31.F.35.
title:	MU.402

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/278741





CATEGORIES
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category: printed music

DATING
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creation date:	1774 - 1774
creation date earliest:	1774
creation date latest:	1774

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric
maker: Morell, Thomas
maker: Houbraken, Jacobus
maker: François, Gravelot
maker: James, Angela

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 score ([10], 203, [1] pages) : portrait ; 37 cm (fol.)