MS score, Select airs of Handell's, by an unknown copyist

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Scope and Content

1 volume, MS score, 1730s, Select airs of Handell's (contemporary binding label), a selection of 25 arias from Tamerlano (1724), Rodelinda (1724), Poro (1731), Admeto (1726), Riccardo primo (1727), in a copyist's hand. Ownership inscription, 'Dss of Newcastle', i.e. Henrietta Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle (d.1776), wife of 1st Duke of Newcastle.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased, 1997

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