IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278997 accession number: MU.MS.804 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sacred oratorio in 3 acts. For SSSMzSTBBB soli, SATB chorus, and orchestra. Roles: Susanna (S), Attendant (S), Daniel (S), Joacim (MezzoS), 1st Elder (T), Chelsias (B), 2nd Elder (B), A judge (B) Orchestration : ob1, ob2, fag, tr1, tr2, vl1, vl2, vla1, vla2, vlc/bc/org. Thematic cat. no. HWV 66. Omits second half of recitative before no. 19 ; Omits no. 35, Recitative B before no. 36 has 66 bars ; Recitative A before no. 38b Manuscript in the hand of John Christopher Smith, 1683-1763. Watermark: "LVG" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield; countermark "IV" (C*g2), and, "VL" below "WR" below fleur de lis in crowned shield; countermark: "I VILLEDARY" (Burrows E*b) Pages 83-84 are an inserted leaf of different paper (watermark: "LVG" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield (Burrows C*c) and in a different hand. With index in later hand p. [ii-iii], on end papers with dated watermark: "1815" English words. Volume 19 (label on spine now missing) of the Barrett Lennard collection. Barrett Lennard binding style B, group 1 (see D. Burrows). title: Susanna 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/278997 PEOPLE ------------------- Barrett-Lennard, Henry CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1759 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1759 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric maker: Smith, John Christopher (sen) DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 ms. score ([iv], 227 p., bound) ; 44 cm.