IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278740 accession number: MU.440 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: For solo voices, chorus and piano or organ. Title pages for volume and for each work. Each title page has an illustration: Volume: "Handel [after the Louis François Roubiliac statue] / George Cooke, sc." ; Judas Maccabaeus: "Come ever smiling Liberty ... / Isaac Taylor, sculp." ; Samson: "She stands and eyes thee fixed / drawn by Isaac Taylor jun.r, engraved by Isaac Taylor, sen.r" Includes table of contents on the last unnumbered page of each score. Judas Maccabaeus probably published ca. 1809. Samson probably published ca. 1810. Wholly engraved. English words. Staff notation. Provenance: Founder's bequest, 1816. Not inscribed but probably the part of the "Handel's works. 52 nos. in sheets. Dr. Clarke's Edition" listed in Bartleman's catalogue of the Bequest (MU.1452). Received unbound. Bound in half calf with blind double lined edges and cloth imitation marbled sides, in approximately 1890. Former shelfmark: 1 F 2 and possibly 29.H. cupboard. Contents: Judas Maccabaeus -- Samson. title: Vocal music. Selections. Vocal score LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/278740 CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music DATING ------ creation date: 1809 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1809 creation date latest: 1810 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric maker: Clarke-Whitfeld, John maker: Cooke, George maker: Taylor, Isaac (writer) maker: Taylor, Isaac, II maker: Beale, J. DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 vocal score (2 volumes in 1: [2] leaves, 2-187, [1] pages ; [1] , 2-214 pages) ; 40 cm