Williams, Williams: 155 Pieces, 1797
Collection
155 Pieces
Contains works by Billings (12), Read (8), Edson (6), Holdroyd (6), Swan (3), Tans'Ur (3), Brownson (2), Holden (2), Morgan (2), Stephenson (2), Bourgeois, Bull, Carpenter, Goff, Hibbard, King, Strong, Williams and Anonymous (103) US-NH , Misc. Ms. 296
Contains
Original Title: [t.p., p.1:] Book
Material:
  • Source type
    Source type: Manuscript copy
    Content type: Notated music
    Date
    1797-1800 (18.ex)
    Publishing, printing and production information
    Place: Connecticut (Groton) [verified]
    Material
    Format, extent: scores and parts: 181p.
    Dimensions: 13 x 21 cm
    Watermark description
    Britannia; J. Whatman
    Notes
    Oblong octavo bound in full limp leather, considerably worn. Contemporary newspaper extracts from New London used as endpapers with notices dated December [17]97.; State of preservation: Browned throughout, heavily in places. Some pages chipped at edges with slight loss of text or notation in several instances. Tears to some pages, 2 paste-downs. Some staining.
    Binding note
    Binding note: Bound and sewn.
    Copyist: [Verified]
Former owner: [Verified]
Provenance note: Williams, Ann
Source of acquisition note: Purchased from J. & J. Lubrano in 1991.
Notes: Unpaginated.
Notated in ink on hand-ruled staves with text and staff lines to several tunes in red.
p.121: John A Williams | Book Gorton [sic] Con
Blank verso of last leaf: Ann Williams Groton
Babylon and Qan Tan, which occur near end of ms., may be earliest pieces in shape-note notation.
Library (siglum) shelfmark: Misc. Ms. 296
RISM ID no.: 900004448
Last update: October 16, 2022