The Melvill book of roundels
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Melvill book of roundels
Other titles: Ane buik off roundells
Classmark: Large Bibliography A-0.02/ROX
Creator(s): Melvill, David (fl. 1600-1612)
Additional creator(s): Bantock, Sir Granville Ransome (1868-1946) (Other); Tomkinson, Michael (1841-1921) (Other); Anderton, H Orsmond (Other); Roxburghe Club (Other)
Related people: Bantock, Granville Ransome; Tomkinson, Michael; Anderton, H. Orsmond
Publisher: Privately printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe club
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1916
Language: English
Size and medium: xxviii, 57 (i.e. 115) p., 204 p., [2] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188410
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008733569705181
Description
Publication financed, and presented to the Roxburghe club, by Michael Tomkinson, owner of the ms.
With facsimile reproduction of original t.p.: Ane buik off roundells. Whairin thair is conteined songs and roundells that may be sung with thrie, four, fyue, or mo voices haifing prettie and plesantt letters sum in latin and sum in Inglish quhilks ar an hundreth in number. Collected and notted by dauid meluill. 1612.
List of the chief musical collections made during 1545-1624: p. [ix]-xii.
Old and modernized texts on opposite pages, paged in duplicated.
Modern version by Miss Margaret E. Thompson.
Includes some latin.
Additional description
Autograph presentation inscription of Michael Tomkinson appears on the flyleaf
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