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Title
[Songs], 1717.
Physical Description
1 v. (64 p.) ; 13 x 8 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Several pages throughout are written in a different hand, some in pencil, which include crude drawings of owls, a strawberry, and a pot of flowers, a list of names including "Isabela Larmouth" whose name also appears on the flyleaf, and a partially obliterated short narrative about "a naughty boy who cryed."
Inscription on flyleaf: "George Cuthbertson. Sept. 13, 1717" and "Isbla Larmouth Lerneth."
Inscription on p. 4: "George Archibauld James."
Marbled endpapers.
Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration; remains of metal clasps.
In English.
Provenance
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Summary
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 17 original songs, many of them love songs, written in an interleaved copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1698. Titles include "The Deceitful Lover," "The scolding wife," and "Beauty's advocate or the Charms of beauty." The manuscript also includes numerous memoranda and accounts of receipts, primarily relating to copying legal papers. A memorandum dated May 8 1721 mentions the Mayor having "given consent to the players to have the Moothall for playing in."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2005
References
George Cuthbertson, Songs. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
George Cuthbertson, Songs. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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