Selections [Collection of arias, solo cantatas and sketches] / [George Frideric Handel]
Composer:
Handel, George Frideric
Conservator:
Cockerell Bindery
Italian arias and cantatas, some incomplete.
Nine fascicles, the first two in the hand of a copyist probably from the 1720's, the rest are holograph, four from the 1710's, and two from ca. 1747.
Includes pages of different sizes, either oblong (ca. 24 x 29 cm) or folio (29 x 24 cm).
Former classmark: 6.I.2.
Ownership: from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs acquired in 1799.
Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in 1978-1979 by the Cockerell Bindery; the 1890's bindings have been retained.
1 ms. score (34 p., bound) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
1710 - 1747
Accession number: MU.MS.252
Primary reference Number: 276873
ALMA control 001: 994603923803606
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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