1600473670000 1600424060000 Standard Record object-249412 1752776304062 1752749068000 1752776126388 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-249412 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/249412 ddafde5c-e218-32f1-a5be-af0fe62c6d41 10 reference term-134330 adlib-term-134330 dbec789a-771d-3410-8de6-fa7386bef9b4 manuscript (music) content description 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] Manuscripts and Printed Books 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} MU.MS.251.p.31 1 accession number MU.MS.251.p.31 249412 priref 249412 ALMA control 001 994602983803606 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/249412 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/249412 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1732 1732 [London],[1732] 1732 composer reference agent-158126 adlib-agent-158126 6316743e-3a7d-3548-87b1-90a36fc1756f Handel, George Frideric scribe reference agent-203158 adlib-agent-203158 c319779c-fd0d-32fb-9c96-1a8dcdfd0ef7 Smith, John Christopher (sen) 1 ms. score (p. 31-36) ;23 x 29 cm. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Breathe soft ye gales ; Watchful angels = Pure menti amico ciel ; [Alleluia] / [George Frideric Handel] object OBJECT