IDENTIFIERS
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id:	278921
accession number:	MU.MS.1.A-C

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 15 December 2020
updated:	Thursday 14 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Opera in three acts.
Title page for the overture
First performed in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, 8 January 1753.
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.
Manuscript copyist in ink.
Paper: 10 staves (180x248mm), watermark: fleure de lis in circle.
Provenance: founder's bequest, each volume inscribed "Fitzwilliam 1782".
Former classmarks: 22. F.1-3; X.5.3-5.
Original binding: dark blue card sides, with manuscript title on paper label (preserved). Rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in the 1980's.
1.1.1 vl1 Overtura Allo. spiriritoso D G-2 xFC c 2'D+D+/4D-{y8DEzyEFz}/q6F{8E6DE}4D{y8DEzyEFz}/ 
Operas Scores.
title:	MU.MS.1.A-C

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/278921





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1753 - 1753
creation date earliest:	1753
creation date latest:	1753

CREATORS
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maker: Jommelli, Nicolò,
maker: Metastasio, Pietro,
maker: Cockerell Bindery

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms score (3 v. : 82, 75, 78 leaves, bound) ; 21 x 27 cm.