DATE: c1585-90
Page measurements: 132 x 174 mm
Pedagogical book in oblong quarto format. The book exists only asfragments in the form of a series of half-pages which had been used by a 17th-centurybinder as waste endpapers between the clean endpaper and the binding board. Someof the pages have been reconstructed sufficiently that the original dimensions of a few of thefoliosare visible. The following description is taken from Spencer's notes onthe fragments.
The neat tablature is written for a six-course lute and shows a fair number of ornament signs. The lack of material makes it difficult to assign a date, but the general appearance and absence of diapasons suggest the book was probablyamong the earliest to contain pieces by Dowland. Six fragments were removedfrom three books of the "star" class in Cambridge University Library of size (F) in 1915 and 1942.Spencer examined other books of the same class in the library and discovered afurther 12 fragments in six books which were extracted and photographed. The 18 half-pages were mounted up as a book in 1972 by the library's conservator, into a form that probably resembles the original book, folios [1]-[6v] and [7]-[8v] formingconsecutive sequences, while the remaining fragments do not suggest any recognisableorder. Some of the repair tissue has obscured some previously visible notes, but on the whole hasgenerally improved legibility of the original by removing the old binder's glue. Itis similar in size to Dallis, which originated in Cambridge in 1583. The books from which the fragments were recovered are likely to have come from the library of RichardHoldsworth(1590-1649). The latest dated volume so far found containing lutefragments is dated 1628. Holdsworth became Master of Emanuel in 1637, and it is likelythat the binding of his books dates from this time. His library of 10,000 books was bought bythe University in 1664.
Bibliography: Lumsden1953
Robert Spencer: 'The Cambridge Lute Manuscripts: a Postscript' LSJ vi (1964), 29
Poulton 1982
folio
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original
ascription
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title
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composer
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cons.
& cogs..
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| 1-2
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Queene
MariesDumpe
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Queen
Mary's Dump [P.A.]
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Ballet
4-5/1 cf: RA58 54v/1 Folger 1/2
Dallis 192-193
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| 2v-3
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M[r]
Pagonto[n] hisGalyarde
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Packington's
Galliard, first part of duet
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Marsh
268 Brogyntyn 19/3 Mynshall 9 Sampson 9/1
cf: Brogyntyn 19/2 [2nd pt]
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| 3v-5/1
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The
Old Medley
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John
Johnson
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31392
18v-19v/1 Marsh 270-271 and 272 Adriansen 1584 Brogyntyn 16-17/1 Dallis 53 Dd.2.11 88v-89/1 Thysius 192-193 Valerius 1626 99-100 Waissel 1591 L2v
Welde 8v-9/1
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| 5/2
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[The
Earl o]f Oxfordes G[alliard]
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The
Earl of Oxford's Galliard
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Folger
4v/1 and 5v/1
Dallis 89
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| 5v-6/1
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[D]owlandes
Lacrimæ
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LachrimaePavan
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John
Dowland [15]
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see
separatelist
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| 6/2
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Mrs
White's Choice/Thing
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John
Dowland [50]
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ML
2/1 Sampson 7/1 and 7/2 Wickhambrook 15/2 Pickeringe 19/4 Dd.2.11 63v/2
Dd.4.23 31v
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| 6v/1
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Capit[aine]
Candishe his Galya[rde]
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Captain
Candish's Galliard
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John
Dowland [21]
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Dd.2.11
56/1 Hirsch 11v/2
Mynshall 1/3
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| 6v/2
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[n.t.]
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| 7/1
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Galliard
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Francis
Cutting
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Dd.2.11
71v/2 Euing 29 31392 34/2 Marsh 386/1
Thysius 33
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| 7/2
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Toy
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Francis
Cutting
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Dd.2.11
80v/3
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| 7v/1
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[n.t.]
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| 7v/2-8/1
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The
Earl of Oxford's March
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408/2
95/3 Dd.3.18 20/2 (cnst) Mynshall 7/3
Thysius 373v
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| 8/2
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Canticle:
Veni Creator--Come Holy Ghost
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| 8v/1
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where
righteousness etc.
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Psalm:
Where Righteousness
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Marsh
429
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| 8v/2
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When
aswe sat in Babilon
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Psalm:
When As We Sat in Babylon
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| 8v/3
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Psalm:
O God My Strength and Fortitude [inc.]
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| 9/1
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Galliard
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| 9v
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Go
From My Window, second part of duet/consort part
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RichardAllison
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Board
10/3 Euing 48v-49/1 Montbuysson 1/1 Dd.3.18 34v-35 (cnst) cf Collard: Dd.9.33 31v-32 Pilkington: 31392 26v-27 JD: Euing 17v-18/1 Barley1596 66-69 (orph.) Dd.5.78.3 39v-40 Pickeringe 29v Thysius 395/2 Robinson: Dd.2.11 3 Dd.5.78.3 40v Folger 17
Robinson 1603 29
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| 10
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Sir
John Smith'sAlmain
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John
Dowland [47a]
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Dowland
1610B 30v/2-31 2764(2) 10 Marsh 384 ML 8v/1 Folger 13v-14/1 Ballet 7/1 (?dt) Schele 148/2 (cnst) Brahe 16v-17/1
Thysius 503
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| 10v
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Lady
Laiton's Almain
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John
Dowland[48]
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Schele
145/2-146/1 Dd.2.11 48/3 Welde 5/3 Mynshall 10/1 Besard 1603 139v Thysius 492/1 Folger 11v Wickhambrook 17/3 Fuhrmann 1615 80/2 Hove 1612 59/2 Richard 59v/2-60 cf: Vilnius 66v/2 Dlugoraj 367 Eijsertt 27
Cologne 59v-60
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| 11-11v/1
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Quadro
Pavin Treble
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Quadran
Pavan, duet treble
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John
Johnson
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Dd.3.18
26v-27/1
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| 11v/2-12/1
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Psalm?
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| 12/2
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Lo[e?]what
itis to loue
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O
What it is to Love
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Dallis
17/1
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| 12/3
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[Robin]
<Hoode>
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Robin
is to the Greenwood Gone/ BonnySweetRobin/Robin Hood
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John
Dowland [70]
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JD:
Board12v/2 Cosens 32v Euing 31/2 Pickeringe 22v and 35/2 Vilnius 6v/1 Dd.9..33 29v-30 and 81v/4 (band.) Fuhrmann 1615 114-115/1 ?JD: Mynshall 8/4 Dd.2.11 53/2 and 66/3 Folger 16v Dd.3.18 11 and 18 31392 25 Montbuysson 3v cf: Ballet 27 408/2 113/2 and 104/2 Euing 46v-47 Dd.2.11 80/2 Nn.6.36 19v-20/1 (l.v.) Robinson 160318v/1
Lodge 5
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| 12v/1
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Chy
passa
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Chi
Passa
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Cotton
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Marsh
30/2
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| 12v/2
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Mounsieur's
Almain, second part of duet/cnst part
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Daniel
Bacheler
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Dd.3.18
35v (dt) Euing 19v (dt) Mynshall 10/2 (dt) Welde 14v/2-15 (dt) Schele 147/2-148/1 (cnst) Vilnius 1/3 (cnst band.) Wickhambrook 17/2 Folger 13 Dd.4.22 12 Dd.9.33 38v-40, 47 & 53v Genoa 139v-140 Dowland 1610B 27-28v Marsh 18 Thysius 484 Valerius 1626 286-287 cf: GB-Lbl Add.Ms.3034231v different settings: Cosens 15v-17 and 44v-46 Dd.2.11 33v-34/1 Hove 1601 99v and 108v
Dd.5.78.3 70v/2-71/1
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