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Vocal music. Selections: MU.MS.253

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Vocal music. Selections
[Collection of duets with continuo] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Binder: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

Description

Italian duets.
Six or seven fascicles, some probably linked, written in Italy and Germany, 1706-1712.
Includes pages of different sizes, either oblong (ca. 23 x 29 cm) or folio (29 x 24 cm).
Former classmark: 6.I.3.
Ownership: from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs, with his signature "Fitzwilliam, 1799" on p. 45.
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.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (70 p., bound) ; 24 x 29 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

1706 - 1712

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.253
Primary reference Number: 276882
ALMA control 001: 994611193803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 Updated: Monday 1 February 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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