IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278754 accession number: MU.MS.75 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Monday 8 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Opera in 3 Acts. Characters: Oriana (S), Melissa (S), Orgando (S), Amadigi (S), Dardano (A), Chorus (SATB). Libretto probably by Giacomo Rossi after Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Caption title. Thematic cat. no.: HWV 11. Contains variants 1a not 1b; 12a not 12b. Copyist manuscript in ink (same hand as MU.MS.74) Paper: 20 staves (306x193mm); watermark: "GR" below fleur de lis in crowned shield; countermark: "J WHATMAN" Former classmark: 31.F.10. Probably received unbound or in grey paper covers (see MU.MS.73). Bound in dark blue calf with marbled paper sides in the 19th century. Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on leaf 1: "R. Fitzwilliam 1767". title: MU.MS.75 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/278754 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric maker: Rossi, Giacomo, maker: La Motte, M. de (Antoine Houdar) DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 ms. score (80 leaves, bound) ; 35 cm.