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Selections: MU.MS.261

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Selections
[Collection of solo sonatas with continuo, keyboard suites, instrumental music, and a cantata] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Conservator: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

Description

Keyboard music, instrumental and orchestral music, exercises and examples for the study of continuo and fugue, and sketches.
Fascicles, folds and single leaves.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
Former classmark: 30.H.11.
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.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (76 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

Circa 1710 - Circa 1750

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.261
Primary reference Number: 276960
ALMA control 001: 994651553803606

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 Updated: Monday 15 February 2021

Associated departments & institutions

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

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