File Cwrtmawr Music MS 31 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]. - Tune book,

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Cwrtmawr Music MS 31 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

Title

Tune book,

Date(s)

  • [1819x1857] / (Creation)

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Extent and medium

24 ff. ; 21 ff. (many leaves removed between ff. 14 and 15) ; 105 x 165 mm. and less. Originally two volumes, paper covers, now glued together to form one volume.

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Archival history

Signatures of Lewis Richards, 1819 (f. 9), and of J. Lloyd, 1857 (f. 1 verso) in first part. A leaf pasted inside the front cover bears the name of the Reverend R[ichard] Richards (1780-1860), vicar of Caerwys, 1816-1849, but an accompanying note by his sister, Mair Richards, states that he was not the owner.

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Two nineteenth-century tune books now joined together as one volume, with further quires and single leaves added to the first part, which contains mainly popular and traditional Welsh and English tunes together with a few hymn-tunes, and is dated 1827 in the hand of Mair Richards, Darowen (on front cover). The second part, containing mainly popular and traditional tunes, together with a few hymns in Welsh, may have been first compiled by Thomas Davies, shoemaker, Esgaironen Fach, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, 1847-1857 (notes on covers and ff. 2, 20 verso), who added a list of customer accounts on ff. 16 verso-18.

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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.

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Usual copyright laws apply.

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Musical notation, English, Welsh.

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Availabe on microfilm at the Library.

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Preferred citation: Cwrtmawr Music MS 31 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

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vtls006069822

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Microform: $h - MEICRO CWRTMAWR MUSIC MS 31.
  • Text: Cwrtmawr Music MS 31 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]; $z - Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies..