IDENTIFIERS
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id:	249412
accession number:	MU.MS.251.p.31

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Friday 18 September 2020
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Nos. 1-3 from the conducting score of the 1732 version of Esther (HWV 50b), the rest of which is in D-Hs MC/261. With variants for later performances (1737 and 1751).
For S ([Isrealite woman]), S (Esther), with orchestra.
Title from first lines.
Holograph manuscript in ink, and the hand of J.C. Smith, senior, in ink (see Burrows for details) ; pasteovers in another hand.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend ; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C*40)
Contents: Breathe soft ye gales : [with variant soprano line pasted over] -- [2] Watchful angels = Pure menti amico ciel -- [3] O King of kings [Versions A & C, the latter pasted over A] -- [4] [Alleluia] : [first 7 bars only]

1.1.1 S ([Israelite woman]) Breathe soft ye gales Bb C-1 c =6/2-4-8''C/2F+4F8-A/2F4-C/2'A4-8-A/2F
1.1.2 S ([Israelite woman]) Breathe soft ye gales Bb C-1 c =6/2-4-8''C/2F+4F8-C/2'A4-A/2''C4-8-'A/2F
1.2.1 S (Esther) Watchful angels G C-1 xF 3/8 =7/8-''GD/4'B8G/-''GD/4'B8''C/D4E/E8D/
1.3.1 vl1 [Alleluia] Bb G-2 bBE 12/8 4'B8-4''C8-{DC'B}{''EDC}/{DC'B}{''EDC}
title:	Breathe soft ye gales ; Watchful angels = Pure menti amico ciel ; [Alleluia] / [George Frideric Handel]

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/249412





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1732 - 1732
creation date earliest:	1732
creation date latest:	1732

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric
maker: Smith, John Christopher (sen)

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. score (p. 31-36) ;23 x 29 cm.