Text set / Christmas carrols to be sung in the Christmas holy days.

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Title: Christmas carrols to be sung in the Christmas holy days.
Alternative Title: Christmas carrols, XVIII cent.
Creator: Beal, John.
Hill, William Robinson, former owner.
Contributor: Robinson, Jane Penneck, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1728-1800]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Title from compiler's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. With 19th or 20th century description of the volume on a loose inserted leaf, probably by a bookseller.
Scope/Content: An 18th century collection of nineteen Christmas carols, most rare and seemingly unknown, collected by John Beal around 1728. The first seventeen carols are in the same hand, presumably Beal's, while the last two are contributed by another individual, possibly one of the later owners of the volume, Jane Penneck Robinson or William Robinson Hill. Robinson and Hill were grandmother and grandson and both lived in Helston, Cornwall; their link to Beal is unknown.
Condition: Rebound in early vellum; cover from original paper wrapper mounted on front paste-down.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Music
Extent: 52, [38] p., bound ;19 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1xs4j
MS.1950.004
Language: English
eng
Subject: Carols--England--18th century.
Place: England--Cornwall
Provenance: Front paste-down endpaper inscriptions: "John Beal his book hand and peen 1728"; "Jane Penneck Robinson 1763, her book"; "William Hill 1800."
Location: CLUW

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