IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 307097 accession number: MU.MS.26 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 18 October 2021 updated: Thursday 21 October 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Language: Italian 30 numbered arias from Arianne e Teseo, first performed in the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in the Autumn of 1727. Editorial title. In two hands: nos. 1, 13-15, 17, 19-20, 22, 27 are in hand 1, nos. 2-12, 16, 18, 21, "Numi del ciel", 23, "Sinfonia", 24-26, 28-30 are in hand 2. "S. Gio. Gris[osto]mo. P[ri]ma" is found at the head of nos. 18, 21, 29 and 30 (all hand 2) All the arias in hand 1 are headed "Aria" and ascribed "Del Sigr. Nicola Porpora" ; only a few of the arias in hand 2 are ascribed. Before no. 24 there is a "Sinfonia" and recitative (not in the index). Copyist manscript in ink. Former classmark: 23.F.3. With original index on front flyleaf. Numbered 1-30. The last three are bracketted together as "aditione". Before no. 23 an accompanied recitative titled "Minotauro" ("Laberinto" in the score) is inserted. Original white vellum: edges of pages dyed green. object type: 1 ms. score (132 leaves, bound) ; 22 x 30 cm title: [Arianna e Teseo] : [arias and duets] / [Nicola Antonio Porpora] NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ownership inscription and date: "R. Fitzwilliam 1771". Bookplate: 'Fitzwilliam'. 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/307097 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1730 CREATORS -------- maker: Porpora, Nicola