[Songs], 1717

Description

Title: [Songs], 1717
Creator: Cuthbertson, George
Abstract: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 17 original songs, many of them love songs, written in an interleaved copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1698. Titles include "The Deceitful Lover," "The scolding wife," and "Beauty's advocate or the Charms of beauty." The manuscript also includes numerous memoranda and accounts of receipts, primarily relating to copying legal papers. A memorandum dated May 8 1721 mentions the Mayor having "given consent to the players to have the Moothall for playing in."
Description: In English.
Several pages throughout are written in a different hand, some in pencil, which include crude drawings of owls, a strawberry, and a pot of flowers, a list of names including "Isabela Larmouth" whose name also appears on the flyleaf, and a partially obliterated short narrative about "a naughty boy who cryed."
Inscription on flyleaf: "George Cuthbertson. Sept. 13, 1717" and "Isbla Larmouth Lerneth."
Inscription on p. 4: "George Archibauld James."
Marbled endpapers.
Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration; remains of metal clasps.
Provenance: For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Extent: 1 13 x 8 cm. v. (64 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Texts
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Cuthbertson, George.
Subject (Topic): Account books
English literature
English poetry
Love songs
Memorandums
Songs, English
Subjects: Cuthbertson, George
Account books
English literature > 18th century
English poetry > 18th century
Love songs
Memorandums
Songs, English > England > Texts
James, George Archibauld > Autograph
Larmouth, Isabella > Autograph

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Citation: George Cuthbertson, Songs. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.