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Selections: MU.MS.798

Object information

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Titles

Selections
Miscellanys / by Mr. Handel.

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Annotator: Lacy, Michael Rophino

Categories

Description

Four manuscripts bound together (the third manuscript comprises possible five separate manuscripts paginated as one)
Cover title.
Volume "10" of the Barrett Lennard collection.
The first three were copied ca.1736-1741, the fourth ca. 1760 (see D. Burrows).
The first three manuscripts are annotated by Rophino Lacy (See Burrows, p. 127).
Barrett Lennard binding style D (see D. Burrows), the first three manuscripts probably belong to the same period as those in binding style A.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (187 leaves, bound) ; 44 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1902) by Barrett Lennard, Francis

Dating

Circa 1736 - Circa 1760

People, subjects and objects depicted

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.798
Primary reference Number: 279125
ALMA control 001: 994729753803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Tuesday 9 February 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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