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R.M.20.e.9
- Record Id:
- 040-001948668
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x00039e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156351746.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.e.9
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 111v-112 and 125v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. f. 135 is an inserted leaf with a note in the hand of F. Nicolay.
Points of note:
1. f. 24. ‘These labours past’ (Facs. p. 47). All the lower line is cut in pencil down to ‘…they prove’ (top line p. 48).
2. f. 24v. All the lower line (Facs. p. 48) is cut in pencil down to ‘…prove’ (Alto part, top line, p. 49). Pencilled alterations of notes are both in the Soprano and Alto parts.
3. f. 23. ‘Freely I to Heaven resign’ (Facs. p. 245). The opening bar is marked (in pencil): ‘ex A #’. The whole air has several pencilled alterations not shown in the facsimile.
Thomas Morell, DD: Handel's 'Jephtha' (HWV70) to a libretto by Thomas Morell: 18th cent.
Frederick Nicolay, royal musician and librarian: Handel's autograph scores annotated by: circa 1760- circa 1809: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948668 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.e.9 : George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph - Hierarchy:
- 032-001948397[0234]/040-001948668
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: R.M.
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (136 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100156351746.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1751
- End Date:
- 1751
- Date Range:
- 1751
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 9.25 x 11.75 in.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=R.M.20.e.9
- Publications:
- Händel-Gesellschaft XLIV and Facsimile. See Prefaces to H-G. XLIV and to the facsimile. The latter does not show the cuts made in pencil. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 124-127.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)