Nine volume handwritten manuscript index to accompany the Hymn Collection of John Rylands (thirty-four folio volumes containing cuttings of some 60,000 hymns taken from seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century hymn and prayer books). All nine indices are arranged alphabetically by first line with details of authorship and translation where known: the ninth index contains the details of supplemental hymns. The indices are hand-written in a copperplate script.
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Nine volume handwritten manuscript index to accompany the Hymn Collection of John Rylands (thirty-four folio volumes containing cuttings of some 60,000 hymns taken from seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century hymn and prayer books). All nine indices are arranged alphabetically by first line with details of authorship and translation where known: the ninth index contains the details of supplemental hymns. The indices are hand-written in a copperplate script.
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