[Tune book]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1758

Description:

Collection of hymns with lyrics, folk song tunes without lyrics, several pages of music theory notes at the beginning, and a French horn minuet (p. 31). The front and back pastedowns and first and last leaves contain miscellaneous notes, accounts, and calculations dating to around 1770.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Sold at auction by Lyon & Turnbull (Edinburgh), 9 September 2014, lot 93.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Music -- Manuscripts; Folk songs -- Early works to 1800; Hymns -- Early works to 1800; Music theory -- Early works to 1800; Music theory; Tune-books -- Specimens; Tune-books; Hymns; Folk songs

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Folk songs; hymns; Tune books; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; books

Physical Description:

30 leaves : paper; 98 x 158 mm bound to 105 x 164 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Pagination: Paper, 30 leaves; [1-60]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.; Layout: Notation written in 4 staves per page; hand-ruled in ink.; Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.; Binding: Contemporary leather over pasteboards. Leather of upper cover is badly deteriorating and coming loose from board. Bookseller's advertisement pasted onto inside upper cover.; Origin: Written in England circa 1758 (owner note, p. 1).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1721