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Title:
[Collection of instrumental movements, sketches and fragments] / [George Frideric Handel]
Object name(s):
manuscript; Selections
Brief description:
Miscellany of complete, incomplete and uncompleted works, fragments and sketches, Folds and single leaves, mostly oblong format (3 leaves upright, p. 1-2, 25-26, 27-28). Holograph manuscript in ink, written at various times from ca. 1738-1751. Former classmark: 30.H.14. Conserved, remounted, and rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides in October 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); Selections
Object number:
MU.MS.264
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
1737
Date - latest:
1751
Object production person:
Handel, George Frideric
Person's association:
composer
Object production person:
Cockerell Bindery
Person's association:
conservator
Other number:
MU.MS.264
Other number type:
accession number
Other number:
277035
Other number type:
priref
Other number:
994678413803606
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/fe2f5716-fb99-3fde-a6c9-18c2a10e789c

Use licence for this record: CC 0

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/fe2f5716-fb99-3fde-a6c9-18c2a10e789c, Fitzwilliam Museum, CC 0

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