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Admeto. Selections: MU.MS.798.f.40

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Admeto. Selections
Additional Songs in Admetus / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Scribe: Handel copyist S5

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Description

For voice and orchestra.
Caption title from f. 40.
Manuscript in the hand of Larsen's Handel copyist S5.
Originally paginated 1-16.
Watermark: "WR" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield / "I VILLEDARY"
Copied ca.1736-1741 (see D. Burrows).
The first part of the third section of MU.MS.798 (Barrett-Lennard volume 10).
Contents:
[f. 40] Amor ed empieta : [S, vl, b : HWV 22, additional songs, unnumbered] -- [f. 42] Spera si mio caro bene : [S, vl, bc : HWV 22, additional songs 5b] -- [f. 43v] Io son qual Fenica [i.e. Fenice] : [S, vl1, vl2, vla, bc : HWV 22, additional songs 18b]

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (f. 40-47) ; 44 cm.

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Dating

Circa 1736 - Scribe 1741

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.798.f.40
Primary reference Number: 279128
ALMA control 001: 994729813803606

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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