This is a list of the manuscripts that have been transcribed by the Village Music Project. Additional manuscripts are to be found listed at Folkopedia and in some cases there will be links to other sites where facsimiles or transcriptions are to be found.
- ASHOVER MS, see Harrison & Wall MS
INFO * ABC * PDF - ATKINSON,Henry MS, 1694, UK N’land Morpeth, Newcastle Society of Antiquarians, INFO * ABC * PDF
- BARNES,Joseph MS, 1762, UK Carlisle. Cumbria RO, Carlisle, DX74/2, Film# 866,
INFO * ABC * PDF - BENNET, Thomas MS, 1718, UK, VWML QM 7404,
INFO * ABC * PDF - BETHAM, Matthew MS, 1838, UK Cumbria Newby Head, VWML, QM P7415 or 9721, aka(erroneously) as Docker
INFO * ABC * PDF - BIGGINS, James MS, 1779, UK W.Yorks. Leeds, Leeds Central Library, Yorks
INFO * ABC * PDF - BLACKSHAW, James MS, 1837, UK Shropshire, Private coll,
Article in EDS Autumn 2007 pp12-14
INFO * ABC * PDF - BROWNE Family MSS (4), various dates, UK Troutbeck Cumbria, Armitt Lib, Ambleside, Cumbria,
INFO * ABC * PDF - BURNETT, Joshua MS, early 19thC, UK Worsborough,S.Yorks, Private Collection, part published in PP.Davenport “South Riding Tunebook”,
INFO * ABC * PDF - CALVERT, William MS, 1812, UK N.Yorks. Leyburn, private collection
PDF orginals at Internet Archive
INFO * ABC * PDF - CARLISLE MS, 1810, UK Carlisle,Cumbria, VWML part of QM9732,
INFO * ABC * PDF - CLARE, John MS, c1820, UK Helpstone Northants, Northampton R.O or pub.lib. publ. in ‘John Clare & the Folk Tradition’,
INFO * ABC * PDF - CLARKE, Wm (of Lincoln) MS, 1770, UK Lincolnshire, Private collection?
PDF at Internet Archive Petrucci
INFO * ABC * PDF
- CLARKE,Wm (of Feltwell) MS circa1820-50 East Anglia, Private Collection
INFO * ABC * PDF - CLEWS, John MS, 1832, UK Shropshire,Stoke on Tern, Private collection,
INFO * ABC * PDF - COOKE, Benjamin MS, c1770, UK Leeds,W.Yorks, Kidson coll, Mitchell Lib, Glasgow
INFO * ABC * PDF - DIXON, Thomas John MS, 1798 Holton-le-Moor, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Archives Dixon 21/1/1 and 21/1/2
INFO * ABC * PDF - DIXON,(2) MS, 1811, unidentified MS from the Dixon Family Papers in Lincolnshire Archives,
INFO * ABC * PDF - DOCKER, see BETHAM
- FOX, Charles James MS, 1830, UK Beverley East Yorks, Kidson coll, Mitchell Lib, Glasgow
INFO * ABC * PDF - GIBBONS, Joshua MS, 1823, UK Tealby Market Rasen Lincolnshire, N.E.Lincs Archives published as ‘Lincolnshire Colls, vol.1’
INFO * ABC * PDF - GILES, William Henry MS, 1830, UK Glos Bampton,VWML 2286
INFO * ABC * PDF - HARRISON & WALL MS, c1770, UK Derbyshire Ashover, Derby Pub. Lib.? current whereabouts uncertain, PDFs at Internet Archive, Petrucci
(See ASHOVER) - HARRISON, Rev. Robt. MS, 1820, UK Cumbria Brampton, Private collection, since donated to VWML, PDFs at VWML
INFO * ABC * PDF - HUGHES, AlbertJ MS, early 19thC, UK Shropshire Whitchurch, Private collection, Article in EDS Autumn 2007 pp12-14
INFO * ABC * PDF - HUGHES, Richard MS, 1823, UK Shropshire Whitchurch, Private collection, Article in EDS Autumn 2007 pp12-14
INFO * ABC * PDF - IRWIN,William MS Folio MS, early 19thC, UK Cumbria Langdale, VWML part of QM9731,
INFO * ABC * PDF - JACKSON, HSJ.MS, 1823, UK Lancashire Wyresdale, Private collection, Published in The Winders of Wyresdale (Link)
INFO * ABC * PDF - JONES, John MS, 1801, UK Shropshire Whitchurch, Private collection, Article in EDS Autumn 2007 pp12-14
INFO * ABC * PDF - KIDSON, Frank (Hornpipes MS), c1900, UK W.Yorks Leeds, KidsonKidson coll. Mitchell Lib. Glasgow M18055, Kidson’s own compilation, using spare pages in empty Huddeswell MS
INFO * ABC * PDF - LISHMAN MS, part of and see Browne family MS, early 19thC, UK Cumbria
INFO * ABC * PDF - MILLER,John MS, 1799, UK Scotland Perth, Bell Library Perth,
INFO * ABC * PDF - MITTELL, Wm MS, 1799, UK Kent New Romney, Private collection (lost, copy in VWML), part publ. in D.Roberts “William Mittell His Book”,
INFO * ABC * PDF - MOORE, John(Tyneside) MS, 1841, UK Tyneside, Private collection,
INFO * ABC * PDF - NUTTALL, James MS, 1830, UK E.Lancs Rossendale, Rossendale Museum,
INFO * ABC * PDF - OWEN, Robert Dale MS, Indiana 1826
INFO * ABC * PDF - SANDS, Thomas MS, 1810, UK Lincolnshire, Donated to VWML,
INFO * ABC * PDF - SPENCER, George MS, 1831, UK Leeds, Kidson coll, Mitchell Lib. Glasgow,
INFO * ABC * PDF - STABLES, Henry MS, 1881, UK Cumbria Walthwaite, VWML QM7406,
INFO * ABC * PDF - STAFFS (Anon MS), 1820, UK Staffordshire, Private collection,
INFO * ABC * PDF - TENNYSON, Eliza MS, 1822, UK Lincolnshire. Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln Central Reference Library,
INFO * ABC * PDF - TYLDESLEY, William MS, c1860, UK Lancs. Swinton, Swinton Pub.Lib,
INFO * ABC * PDF - VWMLa Anon MS, Late 18thC, UK Yorkshire, VWML,
INFO * ABC * PDF - WATSON, George Henry MS, 1850-80, UK Norfolk Swanton Abbott, Private collection,
INFO * ABC * PDF - WINDER, James MS(not Edward), 1835, UK Lancs, Wyresdale, Private collection, There is a website and a book about the Winder family tunebook collection here.
INFO * ABC * PDF - WINDER, John MS, 1789, UK Lancs, Wyresdale, Private collection. There is a website and a book about the Winder family tunebook collection here.
INFO * ABC * PDF
VWML is the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, where you will find PDF facsimiles of some of the collections.
Some of these collections have been transcribed into ABC notation.
VMP indicates that an ABC transcription of the collection is available here at the Village Music Project website.
EDS (aka English Dance & Song) refers to the magazine of the English Folk Dance & Song Society.
FMJ is The Folk Music Journal, the annual academic publication of the EFDSS.
EASMES is Early American Secular Music and its European Sources.