IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278748 accession number: MU.385.C DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Overture, sinfonias, arias and duet, but without the recitatives. Text by Paolo Antonio Rolli. Passe-partout engraved t.p.; title within large cartouche, surmounted by an eagle and with three winged cupids at the bottom, with musical instruments. Engraved music throughout. "A Table of the Songs in the Opera call'd Deidamia" -- -- preliminary page [3], with publisher's advertisements below. Singers named include Andreoni, Savage, Reinhold, Francesina, Monza, and Edwards. Words in Italian. Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on title page: "R. Fitzwilliam, 1767". Received stab stitched in paper covers. Bound in quarter Morocco leather Cockerell paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in March, 1981. Former shelf numbers: 31.F.18 & x.2.58(c). title: MU.385.C LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/278748 CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music DATING ------ creation date: 1741 - 1741 creation date earliest: 1741 creation date latest: 1741 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric maker: Rolli, Paolo maker: Cockerell Bindery DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 score ([4], 89 pages) ; 35 cm (fol.)