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- [c. 1815] (Creation)
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34 ff. (1 verso, 34 recto-verso blank) ; 135 x 235 mm.
Pre-printed tune-book, paper covers.
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Biographical history
John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770-1829), was an antiquary and a cleric.
Archival history
'Mair Richards 1820' [Mary Richards, Darowen] and 'J. H. Davies' [John Humphreys Davies, Cwrtmawr] (ink inside front cover).
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A volume of melodies, [c. 1815], being the original of 'Melus Geingciau [sic] Deheubarth Cymru or The Melodies of South Wales' (f. 1), containing some fifty-six tunes collected by Ifor Ceri [?and others], some with words.
The volume consists of twenty-seven tunes, numbered 1-27, in the hand of Ifor Ceri, thirteen with Welsh lyrics appended (ff. 2 verso-27 verso); a further twenty-nine unnumbered tunes (including duplicates of a few already in the volume) in the hand of Ifor Ceri (ff. 18, 19-20, 21, 22 verso-23, 25, 26, 27, 28-33 verso); and thirteen tunes inserted in spaces by a different hand (ff. 2, 3 verso-5, 8-10, 11 verso-12, 13, 15-17, 24).
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The manuscript is also described in Daniel Huws, 'Melus-Seiniau Cymru (The Melus-Seiniau Cymru Manuscript)', Canu Gwerin : Folk Song, 8 (1985), 32-50 (pp. 35-36).
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Existence and location of copies
Digital version available: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4655492 (viewed April 2017)
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Publication note
Daniel Huws, 'Melus-Seiniau Cymru (The Melus-Seiniau Cymru Manuscript)', Canu Gwerin : Folk Song, 8 (1985), 32-50.
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Note
Previously JLlW 36.
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Original title.
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'Tunes marked Red sent to Mr. Humphreys of Welshpool' (red ink in Ifor Ceri's hand, inside front cover).
Note
Digitised at NLW in 2016. Although some of the tunes are written across openings, each page has been digitised individually.
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Preferred citation: AH1/34
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- Richards, Mary, 1787-1877, former owner. (Subject)
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August 2015.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description revised by Rhys M. Jones, based on the work of Daniel Huws.
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