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- [c. 1752] (Creation)
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98 ff. (foliated 1-70, 72-99).
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A composite volume containing two treatises in Welsh on angling and musical theory, three lists of tune titles, and a large collection of tunes, compiled by John Thomas for the violin, some from printed sources and others written down from oral tradition. The tunes have been published, with related notes, in Cass Meurig (ed.), Alawon John Thomas: a fiddler's tune-book from eighteenth-century Wales (Aberystwyth, 2004).
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Welsh, English
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5130424 (January 2020)
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Another work based on the manuscript is Phyllis Kinney, 'John Thomas's fiddle manuscript: (National Library of Wales MS J. Lloyd Williams 39)', Canu gwerin (Folk Song), 22 (1999), pp. 43-51.
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The fly-leaf (f. 1) bears the autograph of 'John Thomas' with the date '1752'. The autograph of Mair Richards, Darowen (1866) appears on f. 12v, and on the inside cover the initials 'JHD'.
Previously JLlW 39
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Preferred citation: AH1/36
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- Richards, Mary, 1787-1877 (Subject)