Joseph : an oratorio : manuscript, [ca. 1745].

Composer
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Musical score, Manuscript
Language
English
Description
1 score (274 p.) : paper ; 37 cm.

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        Subject(s)
        Former owner
        Library of Congress genre(s)
        Rare books genre
        Getty AAT genre
        Contained in
        James S. Hall Collection of George Frideric Handel, 1714-1968 1946-1968
        Compiled/​Created
        [ca. 1745].
        Linking notes
        Forms part of the James S. Hall collection of George Frideric Handel (C0640).
        Summary note
        Manuscript scribal copy of the full score of Handel's oratorio Joseph, probably in the hand of John Christopher Smith (the elder). This volume is no. 10 in a series made for (Frederick) Prince of Wales about 1745. An engraving by Heath - The Apotheosis of Handel (1787) - has been inserted later as a frontispiece. The contents are as in the Arnold edition except in part III where the air "Tho' on Rapid Whirlwinds" and the recitative "Already There Retaken" are omitted.
        Notes
        Libretto by James Miller.
        Binding note
        Red morocco binding; gilt.
        Language note
        English words.
        Provenance
        Manuscript probably written by J. C. Smith for (Frederick) Prince on Wales about 1745; later given by him, presumably before his death in 1751, to a Mr. Denoyer; purchased by Mr. Pocklington; sale, [Benjamin] Goodison, a London music publisher, bought the manuscript at auction and sold it to a W. M. Moseley; the last address indicated was that of Mrs. Humphrey Lloyd of Buildwas Park, near Shrewsbury; later sold by Messrs. Hodgson & Co., on Friday July 14, 1961 to James S. Hall; bookplates of M M Moseley and Jacobi S. Hall.
        Other format(s)
        • Available on microfilm.
        • Also available in an electronic version.
        Other title(s)
        Handel's Joseph
        In
        James S. Hall collection of George Frideric Handel, 1714-1760
        OCLC
        49657558
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