Volume of ballads clipped from broadsides, 1825-1835
Scope and Contents
Volume containing the manuscript minutes of the West Port/Bow Yearly Society, c 1825. The minutes and accounts are largely obscured, owing to the numerous clippings and exceprts pasted in that form a scrapbook of ballads.
The broadside clippings, where identified, are all printed between 1831 and 1835. Most are printed in Edinburgh, with 7 printed in Reading, England.
The collator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the names of some members of the Yearly Society are visible at the ends of minute entries. The collator cropped most clippings close to the text, destroying decotative woodcuts, printers' imprints and original footnotes.
Dates
- Creation: 1825-1835
Creator
- From the Fonds: Collinson, Francis Montgomery, 1898-1984 (Scottish folk song collector, composer, director, and musicologist) (Person)
Language of Materials
English and Scots
Conditions Governing Access
Open. Please contact the repository in advance.
Full Extent
1 volume
Physical Location
MS 2591
Other Finding Aids
Additional index available on request, noting titles and/or first lines of ballads. Please email heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk requesting handlist H47.
Custodial History
Previous reference Coll-47.
Previous shelfmark Gen. 1953
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Francis J. M. Collinson in 1973. Accession no. E.1973.7
Physical Description
Bound foolscap volume with recent repair to spine. 25 numbered folios. Lined paper beneath, with numerous clippings pasted in.
Processing Information
Catalogued by Elin Crotty in August 2026, using handlist compiled by Peter B. Freshwater, 1994.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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