Ballads
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook containing Gaelic ballads, 18th or 19th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/6/2
Scope and Contents
Gaelic ballads
Dates:
18th or 19th century
The Harris Transcript of old Scottish Ballads - bound volume with manuscript transcript of Scottish ballads
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1818
Content Description
This important bound volume with ms transcript of Scottish ballads had been in the ownership of Mr. Hilary Corke, a Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1951-1955. It is one of two ms volumes known as the Harris Repertoire. Corke had 're-discovered' it in 1955. Much earlier it had been sought after by collectors Norval Clyne, the Aberdonian advocate, and by Francis James Child. It contains a book-plate with arms on the inside front-board - 'Hilary Corke'. On one of...
Dates:
1850-1860