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- [1817]-[1825] (Creation)
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i, 194 ff. ; 140 x 235 mm.
Pre-printed tune-book, calfskin covers with gold tooling, and red morocco spine; 'MELUS SEINIAU CYMRU' (in gold on spine); 'Vol. I' and '47' (in pencil inside front cover); 'Rev. J. Jenkins, Kerry' (label inside front cover).
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John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770-1829), was an antiquary and a cleric.
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'Melus-seiniau Cymru', a collection by John Jenkins, [1817]-[1820], with additions to about 1825 (watermarks 1805, 1813 in the fly-leaves), of Welsh tunes, most with the Welsh lyrics added.
The volume is divided into several sections, consisting of 60 psalms and hymns (ff. 2-26, 151-178), 40 hymn-tunes (ff. 28-48), 58 elegies, carols and moral songs (ff. 50-96) and 67 songs on various themes including military and romance (ff. 100-149, 179-190).
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The manuscript is also described in Daniel Huws, 'Melus-Seiniau Cymru (The Melus-Seiniau Cymru Manuscript)', Canu Gwerin : Folk Song, 8 (1985), 32-50 (pp. 34-35).
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Digital version available https://hdl.handle.net/10107/4655107 (November 2023)
Digital version available at https://syllwr.llyfrgell.cymru/4655107 (viewed April 2017)
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Daniel Huws, 'Melus-Seiniau Cymru (The Melus-Seiniau Cymru Manuscript)', Canu Gwerin : Folk Song, 8 (1985), 32-50.
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Formerly known as Crosswood 300.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 1940iA.
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February 2015.
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Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones, based on the work of Daniel Huws.
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