DATE: c1605
Page measurements: approx. 278 x 191 mm
Teaching fragment in upright folio format. A loose sheet and a bifoliumfrom a collection of copies of inscriptions on miscellaneous loose papers invarious hands donated to the British Library by the Reverend William Cole in 1783.Of the two leaves of the bifolium only the first contains music, the second is ruled but otherwise unused. The inscription is written in an apparently differenthand from the tablature. One bar on the outer edge of f.1 is faded toillegibility. This is the most instantly readable of all the fragmentary sources, reasonably carefully copiedout. Despite there being only four pieces in all, the scribe still managed tofind a place for Dowland's ubiquitous 'Lachrimae'.
The lute is fairly old-fashioned for c1605, but not unusually so. The scribe, whosehand is not wholly regular, appears to be concordant with the first scribe of 408/2.
Bibliography: Lumsden 1957A
Craig 1992
folio
|
original
ascription
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title
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composer
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cons.
& cogs.
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| 1/1
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Lacrame
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Lachrimae
Pavan
|
John
Dowland [15]
|
seeseparate
list
|
| 1/2
|
a
coranto
|
Courant
|
Dd.2.11
81/2
| |
| 2/1
|
Dumesai
|
Mall
Sims
|
Johan
Leo Hassler
|
Pickeringe
26v-27 Cosens 43/2 Dd.9.33 62v/2-63 ML 9v/2-10/1 Vilnius 35 and 41v Hove 1612 59/1 [59] Valerius 1626 206-8 Vallet 1615 92 cf: Folger 15v Mynshall 11v Vilnius 54v/1 Dlugoraj 97 and 483
Stobaeus 76v and 77v.
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| 2/2
|
My
lady hunssdons puff Doulland
|
Lady
Hunsdon's Puff
|
John
Dowland [54]
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Dd.5.78.3
7 Dd.9.33 38/1
Folger 22v
|
6402 f.2
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