- Title:
- [Collection of duets with continuo] / [George Frideric Handel]
- Object name(s):
- manuscript; Vocal music. Selections
- Brief description:
- Italian duets. Six or seven fascicles, some probably linked, written in Italy and Germany, 1706-1712. Includes pages of different sizes, either oblong (ca. 23 x 29 cm) or folio (29 x 24 cm). Former classmark: 6.I.3. Ownership: from the Fitzwilliam collection of Handel autographs, with his signature "Fitzwilliam, 1799" on p. 45. Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in 1978-1979 by the Cockerell Bindery; the 1890's bindings have been retained.
- Collection:
- Fitzwilliam Museum
- Acquisition date:
- 1816
- Acquisition method:
- bequeathed
- Acquisition source:
- Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
- Object name:
- manuscript (music); Vocal music. Selections
- Object number:
- MU.MS.253
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1706
- Date - latest:
- 1712
- Object production person:
- Handel, George Frideric
- Person's association:
- composer
- Object production person:
- Cockerell Bindery
- Person's association:
- binder
- Other number:
- MU.MS.253
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Other number:
- 276882
- Other number type:
- priref
- Other number:
- 994611193803606
- Other number type:
- ALMA control 001
- Other number:
- https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/276882
- Other number type:
- uri
- Responsible department/section:
- Manuscripts and Printed Books
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8097f4c8-569e-3c30-a38a-bd1f875e4446
Use licence for this record: CC 0
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8097f4c8-569e-3c30-a38a-bd1f875e4446, Fitzwilliam Museum, CC 0
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