Details

Subject(s)

• Oratorios—Scores [Browse]
• Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Composers—England—18th century—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Music—England—18th century—Manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

• Hall, James S. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Scores [Browse]
• Oratorios [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—England—18th century [Browse]

Contained in

James S. Hall Collection of George Frideric Handel, 1714-1968 1946-1968

Compiled/​Created

[ca. 1760] /

Linking notes

Forms part of the James S. Hall collection of George Frideric Handel (C0640).

Summary note

Full score in manuscript of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, written in at least 2 different scribal hands. Probably in the hand of Copyist S6 (Larsen) for the first 37 p. and in the hand of Copyist S10 (Larsen) for the remainder. Together with an 18th-century copy of the original trombone parts for "Israel in Egypt" (p. 261-276) laid in at back.

Binding note

White morocco binding; calf spine.

Language note

English words.

Provenance

Bookplate of Jacobi S. Hall.

Other format(s)

• Also available in an electronic version.
• Also available on microfilm.

In

James S. Hall collection of George Frideric Handel, 1714-1760

OCLC

49657545

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