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Leaves containing fiddle music, a fragment of a much larger work, bound inside a pair of hard covers for Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who has inscribed the inner front cover and written 'Vol: 2nd' on the flyleaf.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21841

Scope and Contents

The leaves, watermarked 1801, are paginated between 209 and 255 (with omissions, and somewhat out of order).

Many leaves are soiled or torn, and a loose leaf, apparently from another source, containing minuets (folio 24), has been tipped in at the back.

Dates

  • Creation: [1801, or after.]

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

24 Leaves ; Folio.

Language of Materials

Undetermined

Arrangement

24 folios.

Custodial History

A scrap of paper inscribed ‘Place book belonging to John Bayton' in an eighteenth-century hand is pasted to the endpaper.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought, 1987.

Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

Contact:
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
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Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
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