Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1825x1847] / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
106 ff. (paginated 1-20, and foliated 1-89) ; 140 x 215 mm. Full leather with gold fillet incorporating the letters 'JOHN' on top edge of front cover, blind tooling and fillets on spine.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Thomas John's Book January 9/47' (f. iii verso), possibly of ?W.N. Thomas, Carmarthen, written in pencil in a late nineteenth-century hand (f. iii).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A copy of John Harris, Grisiau Cerdd Arwest: sef cyfarwyddiadau eglur a hyrwydd at ddysgu peroriaeth (2nd ed., Abertawy, 1825), bound with a substantial manuscript tune book, second quarter of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes and anthems with Welsh titles, some written in the bardic alphabet.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Musical notation, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: Cwrtmawr Music MS 40 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Harris, John, 1802-1823 (Subject)