LibGuides: Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Ballads & Broadsides

Online Sources: Ballads & Broadsides

English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)
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"Making broadside ballads of the seventeenth
century fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records."
Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project
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"... this site brings online several interrelated databases that will provide students in this field with essential tools for their researches: a) an exhaustive, critical
bibliography of Pan-Hispanic Balladry, b) a large corpus of texts representative of all ballads documented worldwide since the 15th century, c) cartographic display of the primary and secondary data, and d) digitized
reproductions of original oral performances
and their musical notation. "

Book Sources: Ballads & Broadsides

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Ballads and Romances ( Bishop Percy's folio manuscript) by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall (editors)
Call Number: PR1181.B622 B18
"From the 17th century MS. on which Bishop Percy based his Reliques of ancient English poetry, 1765; now British Museum Additional MS. 27879.
Vol. 3 includes Loose and humorous songs, edited by Frederick J. Furnivall."
A Book of Roxburghe Ballads by John Payne Collier
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
A Catalogue of an unique Collection of Ancient English Broadside Ballads by John Russell Smith
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Printed entirely in the black letter
A Collection of seventy-nine black-letter Ballads and Broadsides by Joseph Lilly et al.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
printed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 : accompanied with an introduction and illustrative notes.
The Oxford Book of Ballads by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Call Number: Online - free - bartleby
"These 176 selections by the master anthologist exhibit such lyrics familiar to this day as “I Saw Three Ships” and long epical ballads like the 3334-line Robin Hood Ballads."
A Pepysian Garland; Black-letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639 by Samuel Pepys; Hyder Edward Rollins (Editor)
Call Number: PR977 .P4 1971
ISBN: 0674661850
Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
The Political Songs of England by Thomas Wright
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
From the Reign of John to that of Edward II. Ed. and tr. by Thomas Wright

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