[Music manuscript].
James Stovin Worsley Pennyman (1830-1896)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1835 - 1836
Materials
Place of origin
Middlesbrough
Collection
Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 3226551
Summary
Bibliographic description
1v. ([72]p.) : music ; 19 x 25 cm (oblong 4to.) Volume of manuscript scores, belonging to James Stovin Worsley. Chiefly vocal scores, with piano or guitar accompaniment. "Mazourka from Moscow on first page; contains numerous vocal scores, with additional leaves tipped or pasted in with the words. With 8 staves per page. On upper pastedown, notes inscribed headed "Directions for tuning the guitar"; on lower pastedown: "To tune in four sharps". Dated from a waltz, with inscription: "From Capt Taylor Corfu, April 1835". Another piece inscribed: "Heidleberg Jany. 1836". Loose inserts: folded leaf with manuscript words to "National hymn": "Lord of Heaven, & earth and ocean"; part of bill, an invoice sheet with printed header of William Wilkinson, printer, bookseller [etc], Middlesbrough, inscribed: 2 Jessica 1/- Pilgrim St 2/- ... [no date]. Provenance: inscribed "James Stovin Worsley [i.e James Stovin (Worsley) Pennyman (1830-1896), changed name to Pennyman]. One piece Inscribed: "From Capt. Taylor Corfu, April 1835". Binding: nineteenth-century half grained sheep, with mottled paper on boards. (Spine damaged.)
Makers and roles
James Stovin Worsley Pennyman (1830-1896)