Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [1740x1825]. (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
55 ff. (some leaves added to original volume) ; 90 x 155-160 mm. Full calf with double blind fillet, spine and lower board repaired with paper, early 19 cent.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
The volume was in the possession of the Richards family, Darowen, by 1803.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Tune book, first compiled in the late eighteenth century, containing 18th century psalm-tunes and hymn-tunes, notes on music, words of psalms and hymns (mostly in Welsh), and accounts and memoranda. The tunes include 'Raged or Reged', 'Anhawdd ymadael' and 'Plygiad y Pedol fach' (f. 4 verso), 'Sybylldir' (f. 20 verso), and 'Brodyr' (f. 23). The volume was in the possession of the Richards family, Darowen, by 1803.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Musical notation, Welsh, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: Cwrtmawr Music MS 7 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].