G. F. Handel: 'Serse' [HWV 40]
MS. Mus. d. 221
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
G. F. Handel: 'Serse' [HWV 40]
Shelfmark
MS. Mus. d. 221
Summary
Score, iv + 257 pages.
18th-cent. copy, with recitatives omitted, probably copied from the score printed by Walsh, 1738. The different parts are indicated by the names of singers at the 1738 performance. The title page, pp. 49-52, and pp. 184-187 are in a later hand and were probably substituted at the time of binding, 19th cent.
Date
18th cent.-19th cent.
Language
Italian
Physical extent
261 pages
Custodial history
Previously owned by Henry Barrett Lennard (1836-1891).
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Collection contents
Music bequeathed by T. W. Bourne
G. F. Handel: 'Serse' [HWV 40]
