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Title:
[Collection of fragments and detached movements, mainly from operas] / [George Frideric Handel]
Object name(s):
manuscript; Operas. Selections
Brief description:
Arias and sections of operas, pasticios and oratorios, some incomplete. Holograph manuscript in ink. Former classmark: 30.H.8. Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in 1978 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); Operas. Selections
Object number:
MU.MS.258
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
1727
Date - latest:
1740
Object production person:
Handel, George Frideric
Person's association:
composer
Object production person:
Cockerell Bindery
Person's association:
conservator
Other number:
MU.MS.258
Other number type:
accession number
Other number:
276918
Other number type:
priref
Other number:
994616873803606
Other number type:
ALMA control 001
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/696890b7-fb5d-3d9f-a268-24d509222d92

Use licence for this record: CC 0

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/696890b7-fb5d-3d9f-a268-24d509222d92, Fitzwilliam Museum, CC 0

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