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Radamisto, HWV 12a: MU.388.B

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Radamisto, HWV 12a
Il Radamisto : opera rapresentata nel Regio Teatro d'Hay Market / composta dal Sigre. Georgio Fredrico Handel.

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Librettist: Haym, Nicola Francesco,
Engraver: Cross, Thomas (engraver)
Printer: Meares, Richard.

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Description

Full score of the overture and all the arias and duets (moving no. 20 to after no. 22), but omitting the Ballo and all recitatives.
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera.
HWV 12a.
With "Royal Privilege and Licence" dated 1720 -- preliminary page [3].
At end of p. 121: The whole engrav'd by T[homas] Cross.
Received stab stitched in paper covers. Bound in quarter Morocco leather Cockerell paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in Nov., 1980.
Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on title page: "R. Fitzwilliam, 1767
Former shelf numbers: 31.F.21 & x.2.61(b).

Measurements and weight

1 score ([5], 121 pages) ; 37 cm

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Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1720 : London : Publisht by the author : Printed and sold by Richard Meares musical-instrument-maker and musick-printer in St. Pauls Church yd. & by Christopher Smith at ye Hand & Musick Book in Coventry-Street near ye Hay-Market, [1720]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.388.B
Primary reference Number: 278783
ALMA control 001: 991006421326703606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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