IDENTIFIERS
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id:	278740
accession number:	MU.440

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 15 December 2020
updated:	Monday 25 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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:	MU.440

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/278740





CATEGORIES
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category: printed music

DATING
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creation date:	1809 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1809
creation date latest:	1810

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric
maker: Clarke-Whitfeld, John
maker: Cooke, George
maker: Taylor, Isaac (writer)
maker: Taylor, Isaac, II
maker: Beale, J.

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 vocal score (2 volumes in 1: [2] leaves, 2-187, [1] pages ; [1] , 2-214 pages) ; 40 cm