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Scope and Contents

Apparently in the same hand as GD45/26/104 in the Scottish Record Office, and as parts of MS.5778. Composers named are [Davis] Mell, [John?] Bannister, Mr Baptist (Lully?), Mr Clayton, and [Robert] Smith. The pieces 'Belle Rese' and 'Borry Royall' (folios 6 verso-7) are also in MS.9455, folios 41, 41 verso, while two others, 'Prelude' by Mell (folios 3 verso-4) and 'Borrie Fountaine Blowe' (folio 12) are also in MS.5779, folios 8 and 11 verso, 12.
Arrangement

41 folios.
Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought, 1979.
Custodial History

The manuscript was previously deposited in the National Library of Scotland, 1957.

Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin. Edit