DATE: 1559-c1575
Page measurements: 99 x148 mm[1]
Household or personal anthology in oblong octavo format. Lumsden described the binding as 'well preserved' but probably did not realise that the binding dated from the 19th century, and is too tight to determine the collation. The book is described in detail in Ward 1992, who describes the repertory in the hands of Scribes A and B as more likely to date from 1559 than 1570, but points out that one of the poems in the hand of Scribe C is dated 1571. Lumsden and Poulton both dated the book c1575, but most household or personal anthologies were compiled over a considerably longer period than most other types of book, and a period of 15 years for the compilation of this book would not be unlikely. Anote on f.1v indicates that the book was still being used in1591, but by then the music was no longer being added. Wardcomments on the rather crude state of the early tablatures, but allows that the scribe could probably play better than he could notate and used the tablature simply to remind him of music that he had more-or-less committed to memory. He suggests that the cruder music was written by the scribe and comparesit to a considerably more polished P.A. pavan that was probably not set by the scribe, but copied from another source.
Bibliography: Giles E. Dawson: July and Julian (MaloneSociety, 1955)
John Stevens: Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court Cambridge
Studies in Music (Cambridge, 1961 repr. 1979)
Charles F.. Hauser: 'Folger Shakespeare Library Ms.V.a.159' PhD diss., U. of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976)
Kevin O'Malley: 'Solo lute passamezzi of England ca.1550-ca.1640.' MA diss.
Oakland U., Michigan (1988)
Ward 1992
folio
original
ascription
title
composer
cons.
& cogs.
3
Will
ye go walke the woode so wilde / Cha: Jackson
Will
Ye Walk the Woods So Wild
Charles
Jackson
Euing
33v-34v
408/2 84/3
4/1
Pretye
Shivall / Petye <shyvall>
Petit
Cheval
Thysius
490v
4/2-4v/1
I
a[m] my lord greis man
I
Am My Lord Gray's Man
4v/2
Blame
not my lute
Blame
Not My Lute
5
Robin
hoode.
Robin
Hood
cf
?JD: Mynshall 8/4
Dd.2.11 53/2 &66/3
Folger 16v
Dd.3.18 11 and 18
31392 25
Montbuysson 3v
JD: Board 12v/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
other: Ballet 27
408/2 113/2
Euing 46v-47
Robinson 1603 18v/1
2764(2) 12/3
Nn.6.36 19v-20/1 (l.v.)
408/2 104/2
Dd.2.11 80/2
5v/1
A
galiard:
Galliard
5v/2-6/1
Passa
mesurs galiarde:
P.A.
Galliard
6/2
Hyght
mystris Whiller
Hight
Mistress Whiller
Lodge
12/2
6v/1
The
motlye.
The
Motley
6v/2-7/1
A
flatte pavione
Flat
Pavan
John
Johnson
Ballet
18
Board 2v/1
Dallis 92/1, 264 (s.n.)
Dd.2.11 87/1
Dd.3.18 21v (dt) and 60v-61 (cnst)
Dd.9.33 90v-91
Euing 8v
Folger 10 (cnst)
Mynshall 4v
Pickeringe 4v/2-5/1 and 5/2 (dt pts)
Trumbull 10 (cnst), 15/1 & 17v-19/1 (dt pts)
Vilnius 55/3
7/2-7v/1
The
Antycke
The
Antick
7v/2
Alebon
galiarde
La
Rochael Fuso
8-8v/1
Reportes
/ J.ff.
Reports
8v/2-9/1
A
pavion:
Pavan
9/2
The
bagpipes
The
Bagpipes
9/3
A
horne pippe
Hornpipe
9v-10/1
The
passe a mesures pavion
P.A.
Pavan
10/2-10v/1
Trenche
more
Trenchmore,
duet treble
JohnJohnson
intbl Dd.3.18 12v-13 (dt)
Lodge 12/1
intbl Marsh 139/1 (dt) and 139/2-141 (dt)
intbl Nn.6.36 33v-34 (dt)
intbl Pickeringe 51v/3 <88v> [inv.]
Welde 11v/1 and 11v/2-12 (dt)
10v/2-11/1
A
Round:
Round
11/2-11v/1
Initiu[m]
[index:] Initium et finis
Initium
et Finis
11v/2
Of
loveto learne to skyll
Of
Love to Learn The Skill
12/1
[index:]
Trenchmore
Trenchmore
John
Johnson
intbl Dd.3.18 12v-13 (dt)
intbl Lodge 10/2-10v/1 (dt)
Marsh 139/1 and 139/2-141 (dts)
intbl Nn.6.36 33v-34 (dt)
intbl Pickeringe 51v/3 <88v> [inv.]
Welde 11v/1 and 11v/2-12 (dt)
60
12/2
The
hu[n]te yis vppe
The
Hunt's Up
Lodge
6/2
12/3
Pauls
galiarde.
Omnino
Galliard
Marsh
287
Brogyntyn 21/3
408/2 90/1
Dallis 31/1 and 95/2
12v/1
Labeckae:
Lavecchia?
?cf:
Dd.3.18 61v (cnst)
Dd.2.11 36v-37/1 (band.)
ML 7 (solo)
Mynshall 12 (solo)
Sampson 9v (solo)
Weld 2v/1 (solo)
Dallis 85/2 (solo)
Vilnius 7 and 40/1 (solo)
Wickhambrook 15v/1 (duet)
John Johnson
Ballet 45 [inv] (duet)
Brogyntyn 28/2-29/1 (duet)
Pickeringe 4/1 (duet)
Wickhambrook 15v/2 [inv] (duet)
Wickhambrook 14/2
Folger 12
Schele 143-144/1
12v/2
Hanc
tua Penelope
Hanc
Tua Penelope
13
In
win=ters iuste retorne / vell sic
In
Winter's Just Return
13v
O
heave[n]ly god. my L. of Essex songe / qth Wm. hewese/.
Heavenly
God/The Earl of Essex's Dump
William
Hewes
Dallis
212
Mynshall 6v/2
Dallis 202-3/1
14-15v/1
A
Dumpe
Militis
Dump [Bergamasca Ground]
Marsh
359
31392 16v/2-17
15v/2-16v/1
Quarter
brawles
Branle
F
G
16v/2-17v
F.
G. / The Frenche galiarde.
French
Galliard
John
Johnson/ (Francesco da Milano)
Dallis
40-41/1 (dvns)
Och1280 3-4
Marsh 46-48
cf: Cosens 33v/3
Dd.2.11 41/2
Dd.5.78.3 41/2
Lodge 16v/2-17v
Thysius 24v/1
Valerius 1626 189
Marsh 148/3-149 (dt pt)
Thysius 16v, 20/2, 19v and 20v (cnst pts)
18
Almaine
Almain
18v/1
Vaine
is worldlye pleasiar/
Vain
is Worldly Pleasure
18v/2-19/1
The
Vprighte esquiere
Upright
Squire
19/2
All
of grene willowe
All
of a Green Willow Galliard
Thomas
Dallis
Dallis
26/2
19v-20/1
In
Crete dissend Bassu[s]:
In
Crete When Daedalus First Began
Mynshall
8/1
408/2 90/2
20/2
Measure
Measure
20v-21
Westones
pauion.
Weston's
Pavan
Weston
ML
10v-11/1
cf: Dallis 22-23 and 96-97/1
Marsh 50-54/1 and 188
Och1280 1-2
[1] I am indebted to Laetitia Yeandle of the
Folger ShakespeareLibrary for supplying me with these measurements and a
description of the binding of the book and its collation.
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