Editorial Policy

Contents:

Appendix 1 lists the solo lute contents of thesources of solo lute music in vieil ton that were compiled in England, or compiled by an English scribe outside England. Each piece is listed by folio or page number. When more than one piece appears on a folio, this number is followed byan oblique stroke and the (editorial) number of that piece on the page.Column 2 gives the precise reading of the original ascription exactly as it appearsin the original source in italic type. Any editorial additions are given in square brackets. Editorial realisations of common abbreviations are given in italic type in square brackets. The title of the piece in standardised spelling (including anyother titles by which the piece is known) and the composer are then listed in columns 3-4, followed byany concordances or cognates in v.t. lute sources in column 5. Someadditional concordances are listed from keyboard and German and Italian tablaturesources. A brief description of the source and its contents is given for each manuscript, but not forprinted sources. Each manuscript inventory is followed by reproductions of onefolios of the work of each of the scribes active.

Ascription:

Where the music is ascribed to different composers or given different titles in various sources, all names arelisted in the relevant column, separated by an oblique stroke. Numbers in squarebracketsfollowing composers' names refer to the number of the piece in thecollected edition of that composer's works.

Related pieces:

Since no two pieces in this repertory areexactly concordant, with the exception of some concordances between Euing and the Holmes books, the definition of this term has been broadened toincludeany music that is basically the same piece, even if transposed. Cognates are pieces with the samename butwhich are substantially or even completely different. This includespieces thatstart the same and then diverge, versions for different instruments or combinations of instruments, duet versions of solo music (and vice versa) etc. As some duet or consort versions may be very similar to solo versions, these are listed as concordances. If the duet or consort part is not recognisably similar, itis listed as a cognate.

Measurements:

Since some sources are not bound, and some have been re-bound since copying, only page measurements are given, with the vertical measurementlisted first. Depending on the state of the source, these measurements may beaccuratefor all pages or only some, therefore some pages may diverge from the given dimensions by asmuch as3-4 mm. In every case, a representative page has been selected from theused part of the book, and measured across the centre point.

Abbreviations:

All text abbreviations used are listed in the glossary in Vol I.

Facsimiles:

In order to allow easy comparison of scribal hands with sources notincluded in this study, all reproductions of original folios are given atfull size. However, many sources are too large to allow a full folio to be reproduced at A4 size. Rather than reducing the size of some facsimiles, these reproductions have therefore been allowed to extend to the outermost margins of the page,thus giving a reasonable quantity of the scribe's hand while retaining same the size-relationship between all the scribes illustrated.

Sources:

Concordant and cognate lute sources are listed in full with the exception of the sources for John Dowland 'Lachrimae'. As this list is particularly long, it is reproduced only once, below. Concordances with non-lute sources are only listed if they are newly discovered or have not been listed in previous published inventories.

2764(2) 5v-6/1
31392 35v-36
6402 1/1
Barley 1596 (Lute) 33-36 (E1-E2v)
Besard 1603 16v-17/1
Board 11v-12/1
Cosens 4v-5, 36v-37
Dd.2.11 75v-77/1, 81v, 84v/2
Dd.3.18 16v-17/1
Dd.5.78.3 9v-9a [21]
Dolmetsch 225v-227v
Euing 25v-26/1
Folger 18v-19
Fuhrmann 1615 60-61/1
Herbert 8v-9
Herhold 24/2-27/1
Hirsch 11v/3
Hove 1601 94/2-95/1
ML 22v/2-23
Montbuysson 5/1-5v, 55v-56/1
Mynshall 11/2
Pickeringe 16v-17/1
Stobaeus 21v-22v/1
Thysius 388v
Valerius 1626 217-218
Vilnius 24v/1
Weld 4v
Cognates (solo):
Hove 1601 95/2
Schele 17-19/1
Hove 1612 2v
Thysius 389v
Cognates (lyra viol)
Ballet 42-3
Cognates (consort oflutes):
Besard 1617 7/1 & 8/1, 7/2 & 8/2,7/3 [inv] & 8/3 [inv]