DATE: c1570
Page measurements: original size unobtainabledue to cropping.
Teaching fragments in oblong format between quarto and folio in size. The sheets were discovered bound into the centre of an 18th-century bookwhich was disbound to retrieve the music and then sold. No record was kept of the book, but it is unlikelyto have been related to the lute leaves in any way. There is an unusualversion ofSellenger's round which, although the tune was registered in 1567, isalmost exclusively to be found in sources from 1615 on. However, this may simply be the earliestversion ofthe tune, and the variant metre may be an earlier version than washitherto known. The layout was originally in large oblong format, but was foldedand stitched down the centre to incorporate it into the book. There is no sign that it have beenbound before, but heavy cropping of all the edges has destroyed any evidencethere mayhave been. The most likely explanation for this type of source is thatthe leaves were loose, and placed into a bound book to protect them. When the book was bound or re-bound, the contents were not examined closely, and the music was simply caught in with the original quires.
Ward identifies 2/6 as probably musicfor thepoem 'The scoffe of a Ladie' from the Handefull of pleasant delites from the 1560s and 70s, and begins with the words 'Attend thee, go playthee', but has no tune named.
Bibliography: Ward 1992 (footnotes only)
Craig 1994
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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
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Pa[ssamezzo]
Pa[van]
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Passamezzo
Pavan
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| 2/1
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[n.t.]
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| 2/2
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Light
of Love
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Lightof
Love
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| 2/3
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Jocundarie
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Jocundarie
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| 2/4
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Seleng[er]s
Rounde
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Sellenger's
Round/ Est-ce Mars/The French Tune
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cf:Schele
59/2 Montbuysson 30/2 & 94/2 ML 16/3 Trinity 128/2 Dd.3.18 5 (dt) Board 25/1 and 12/2 Vilnius 58/3 and 68/3 Folger 87v/4 and 87v/5 Brahe 10v/1 Vallet 1615 70 Marsh 42-43 and 182 408/2 103/1 Thysius 442 (dt) Valerius 1626 164-5 Vallet 1616 34/1-35/2 (cnst pts) Hove 1612 61v/1 FWVB no.148
Vallet 1615 63-64/1 & 70/2
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| 2/5
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[...]es
[t]he [Lutes]
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[n.t.]
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| 2/6
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Attende
the [...]
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Attend
the ...
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?John
Johnson
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| 3-4
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asmes
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Galliard
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