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[Tune book].
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Manuscripts.
- Music.
- Folk songs--Early works to 1800.
- Folk songs.
- Hymns--Early works to 1800.
- Hymns.
- Music theory--Early works to 1800.
- Music theory.
- Tune-books--Specimens.
- Tune-books.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Folk songs
- hymns
- Tune books
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction by Lyon & Turnbull (Edinburgh), 9 September 2014, lot 93.
- Physical Description:
- 30 leaves : paper; 98 x 158 mm bound to 105 x 164 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [England], [publisher not identified], circa 1758.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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).
- Cited as:
- Ms. Codex 1721.
- OCLC:
- 927150669
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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