IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278783 accession number: MU.388.B DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Full score of the overture and all the arias and duets (moving no. 20 to after no. 22), but omitting the Ballo and all recitatives. Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera. HWV 12a. With "Royal Privilege and Licence" dated 1720 -- preliminary page [3]. At end of p. 121: The whole engrav'd by T[homas] Cross. Received stab stitched in paper covers. Bound in quarter Morocco leather Cockerell paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in Nov., 1980. Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on title page: "R. Fitzwilliam, 1767 Former shelf numbers: 31.F.21 & x.2.61(b). title: MU.388.B 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/278783 CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1720 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric maker: Haym, Nicola Francesco, maker: Cross, Thomas (engraver) maker: Meares, Richard. DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 score ([5], 121 pages) ; 37 cm