DATE: c1620 and one piece c1630-40
Page measurements: 411 x 274 mm
Pedagogical book in upright format,larger than folio but smaller than foolscap: the largest of all the sources. The foliation of 1913 covers only those leaves that were written, and ignores 57 ruled but otherwise unused folios between 33v and 34; these were laternumbered 33/1 to 33/56 (33/12* being used for the folio initially overlooked between 33/12 and 33/13). A single bifolium was inserted in 1914 between folios 52 and 53. As it has no lute music on it and has no relation to the manuscript, it is not listed.
Since its acquisition, the British Library has suggested at least two names for the book, neither of which seems to have been substantiated by currently available evidence. It is possible that subsequent conservation etc. may have caused the documentation leading to these identities to be lost, thoughcurrent evidence does not suggest that likelihood. The original owner was Margaret L., whose initials are stamped on the cover, and whose name isincluded in some doggerel on the front endpaper. An unusually large number of scribes were active in this book, only a few of them involved in the music, and not all of themusic is for lute. The provenance of the book and a detailed physical description is given in Spencer 1985B.
Bibliography: Spencer 1985B
Lumsden 1957A
Poulton 1975A
Morgan 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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| 2/1
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Mris
Whites Choyse
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Mrs
White's Choice/Thing
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John
Dowland [50]
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Sampson
7/1 and 7/2 Wickhambrook 15/2 2764(2) 6/2 Pickeringe 19/4 Dd.2.11 63v/2
Dd.4.23 31v
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| 2/2
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A
Prelude
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Prelude
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| 2v/1
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Allmayne
p:[er] John Sturt
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Mrs
Mary Hoffman's Almain
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John
Sturt
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Krakow
1v/1 Dd.4.22 10v/1
Valerius 1626 267-8
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| 2v/2-3/1
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the
Lord hayes coran[t]
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Lord
Hay's Courant
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Sampson
6/1 Board 8/1 cf: Herhold 7v/2-8/1
Folger 24v/1
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| 3/2
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Volte
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Volt/Courant
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Trinity
2/1 Board 37/2 Dd.4.22 9v Dolmetsch 105v-106 Bautzen 21/1
Montbuysson 77v
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| 3/3
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Almain
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| 3v/1
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Brettes
Corante
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Brett's
Courant
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Dd.5.78.3
74v/1 Dd.9.3342v/1 and 58/3 Trinity 126-125/1 Rowallan 3 Besard 1603 153v/2 [first strain only] Montbuysson 25v Fuhrmann 1615 174/1 Beckmann 3v-4 Wemyss 19v Dusiacki 4v Dolmetsch 22v-23 Werl 91v de Bellis 39
Valerius 1626 52-53
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| 3v/2
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A
Masking tune
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Maske
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GB-Lbl
Add.Ms.10444 24
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4/1
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Allmayne
by Robert Kindersley
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Almain
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Robert
Kindersley
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| 4/2
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the
wiches Daunce
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The
Witches Dance from the Maske of Queens
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Board
26/1 Ballet 65 Dowland 1610B 30v/1 GB-Lbl Add.Ms.10444 21 Brade no.49
GB-Lbl Add.Ms.17786-91 no.6
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| 4v-5/1
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A
treable
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The
Queen's Dump, duet treble [Bergamasca Ground]
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John
Johnson
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Schele
138-139 Dd.3.18 4-3v/2 Pickeringe 8v/2-9/1 Folger 6v-7/1
Vilnius 61v-62/1
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| 5/2
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A
treable
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Duet
Treble
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Board
1/1
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| 5v-6/1
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the
Sharpe Pauin treable
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Sharp
Pavan, duet treble
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Richard
Allison
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Folger
17v-18
Pickeringe 11v-12/1
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| 6/2
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A
Corant
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Courant
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Schele
85/2-86/1 ML 6/2 St Petersburg 33v-34 Montbuysson 78v Aegidius 91/2
cf: Ballard 1614 16/2-18/1
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| 6v
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A
treable
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Duet
treble
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||
| 7
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Leuecho
Pauin
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Lavecchia
Pavan
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ML
7 (solo) Mynshall 12 (solo) Sampson 9v (solo) Weld 2v/1 (solo) cf: Dd.3.18 61v (cnst) Dallis 85/2 (solo) Vilnius 7 and 40/1 (solo) Wickhambrook 15v/1 (dt) John Johnson Ballet 45 [inv] (dt) Brogyntyn 28/2-29/1 (dt) Pickeringe 4/1 (dt) Wickhambrook 15v/2 [inv] (dt) Wickhambrook 14/2 Folger 12 Schele 143-144/1
Dd.2.11 36v-37/1 (band.)
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| 7v/1
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the
Cobler
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The
Cobbler
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Folger
9/2
Thysius 393
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| 7v/2-8/1
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the
Lord Souches Maske
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Lord
Zouche's Maske
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Montbuysson
24/1 Dd.4.22 3v Dd.9.33 88/1 Mynshall 7v/2 Folger 8/2 Vilnius 56v/2 Vallet 1615 91 Hove 1601 106v/2 Nürnberg 38 Dolmetsch 148v-149 cf: Vallet 1616 n.86 Schermar [82]
Dlugoraj 295 and 395
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| 8/2
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A
Corant
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Courant
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||
| 8v/1
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Smythes
Allmayne
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Sir
John Smith's Almain
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John
Dowland [47a]
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Dowland
1610B 30v/2-31 Marsh 384 Folger 13v-14/1 2764(2) 10 Ballet 7/1 (?dt) Schele 148/2 (cnst) Brahe 16v-17/1
Thysius 503
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| 8v/2-9
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Allmayne
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More
Palatino/En Me Revenant
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Daniel
Bacheler
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Board
25v/3 Herbert 44/2 Board 25v/3 Pickeringe 28v/1 Fuhrmann 1615 158-159 Herdringen 9829 9v-10 Brahe 35v/2-36 and 37 Besard 1617 no.9 Cosens 43v-44 Trinity 138 Phalèse 1547 6-6b/1
Stobaeus 65-65v/1
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| 9v/1
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A
Pauin by Mrs [sic] Robert Johnson
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Pavan
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Robert
Johnson
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Herbert
22v-23
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| 9v/2-10/1
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Mall
Simmes
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Mall
Sims
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Johan
Leo Hassler
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6402
2/1 Cosens 43/2 Dd.9.33 62v/2-63 Hove1612 59/1 ML 9v/2-10/1 Pickeringe 26v-27 Vallet1615 92 Vilnius 35 and 41v cf: Mynshall 11v Folger 15v Vilnius 6/1 and 54v/1 Montbuysson 4/2 Valerius1626 207-208 Dlugoraj 97 and 483
Stobaeus 76v and 77v
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| 10/2
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the
fayris Daunce
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The
Fairy's Dance
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Nn.6.36
24v/1
GB-Lbl Add.Ms.10444 31v
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| 10v-11/1
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the
Passameasures Pauin
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Passamezzo
Pavan/ Weston's Pavan
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Weston
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Lodge
20v-21 cf: Dallis 22-23 & 96-97/1 Marsh 50-54/1 and 188
Och1280 1-2
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| 11/2
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A
Corant
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Courant
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Trinity
116/2
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| 11v-12
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John
com Kisse mee Now
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John
Come Kiss Me Now
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Cosens
69v-70v
Welde 10v-11 (dt)
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| 12v-13/1
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the
Battle galliard by mr Dowland
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Battle
Galliard/ King of Denmark's Galliard/Mr Mildmay's Galliard
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John
Dowland [40]
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Dowland
1610B 22v-23 Dd.9.33 23 &94v Pickeringe 17v-18/1 Welde 5v Board 17v-18 Sampson 7v Folger 10v-11 Vilnius 22v/2 and22v/3-23/1 Fuhrmann 1615 112-113/1
Brahe 33
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| 13/2
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A
gallyard by Robert Kindersley
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Galliard
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Robert
Kindersley
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| 13v-14/1
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Mr
Holborns Lastwill and testament
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Last
Will and Testament Pavan
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Anthony
Holborne
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Dd.2.11
57v-58/1 Euing 32/2 Hirsch 7v/2-8
cf: Dd.2.11 32 (band.)
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| 14/2
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Tom
of Bedlam
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Poor
Tom of Bedlam
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Board
23/2 and 44/2
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| 14v-15
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Fantasia
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John
Dowland [1]
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Dowland
1610B15-16 Cosens 8v-9 31392 13v-14v/1 and 24 Pickeringe 24v-25/1 Besard 1603 170v-171v/1 Euing 16v-17 Mertel 1615 226/2-228/1
Brahe 27v-31
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| 15v/1
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A
gallyard by mr Dan: Bacheler
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To
Plead My Faith Galliard
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Daniel
Bacheler
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Euing
21/2 Ballet 17 Dd.9.33 4 Welde 7v/1 Board 16/1 Dd.2.11 99v/1 Dd.4.22 6v-7 Besard 1603 120v Dolmetsch 95v-96
Nürnberg 16
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| 15v/2-16/1
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A
gallyard vpon the gallyard before by Mr. Dowland
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Galliard
on a Galliard of Daniel Bachleler
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John
Dowland [28]
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Board
16v-17/1 Montbuysson 94v-95 Herbert 54v-55/1 Dd.5.78.3 35v-36/1 Euing 20v-21/1
Fuhrmann 1615 108/2-110/1
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| 16/2
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Allmayne
by mr Ro:Johnson
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Almain
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Robert
Johnson
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Krakow
9v/1
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| 16/3
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Sellenger's
Round/ Est-ce Mars/The French Tune
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Schele
59/2 Montbuysson 30/2 & 94/2 Trinity 128/2 Dd.3.18 5 (dt) Board 25/1 and 12/2 Andrea 2/4 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 (cnstpts) Hove 1612 61v/1 cf: FWVB no.148
Vallet 1615 63-64/1 & 70/2
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| 16v/1
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Mr
Johnsons gallyard
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Galliard,My
Lady Mildmay's Delight
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Robert
Johnson
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Nn.6.36
11 Mynshall 12v Folger 22 Welde 15v/2-16 Vilnius 20v/1
cf: Nürnberg 11
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| 16v/2-17/1
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the
flyinge Horse
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The
Flying Horse
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||
| 17/2
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Allmayne
by Mr Robert Johnson
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The
Prince's Almain
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Robert
Johnson
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Dd.4.22
10/2 Nn.6.36 15v/3 Board 16/2 Trinity 115/2 Mathew 1652 30-32 Krakow 3/1 Herbert 70v/2
Valerius 1626 213
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| 17v/1
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Corant
|
Courant
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||
| 17v/2
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A
Volte
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Courant
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Mercure
d'Orléans
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Board
43v/1 St Petersburg 40 Schele 48/2 and 87/3 Nn.6.36 25v/1 ML 17v/2 Werl 73v
Dresden 113
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| 18/1
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A
Volte by John Sturt
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Volt
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John
Sturt
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Nn.6.36
26/1
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| 18/2
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Corante
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Courant
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||
| 18v/1
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Corant
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Courant
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Nn.6.36
26/2-25v/3
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| 18v/2-19/1
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Corant
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Courant
de la Durette
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Robert
Ballard
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Aegidius
102 Ballard 1611 45 Valerius 1626 20 Moy 1631 22v-23 Vallet 1615 82
Montbuysson 65v/1
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| 19/2
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the
Noble Man
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The
Noble Men's Maske
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Dd.4.22
8v-9/1
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| 19/3
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A
Volte
|
Volt
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||
| 19v/1
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Allmayne
by John Sturt
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Almain
|
John
Sturt
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|
| 19v/2
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Allmayne
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Almain
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Board
28v/2 and 42v/2
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| 19v/3
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Corant
|
Courant
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Herbert
29/2
Nn.6.36 16/2
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| 19v/4-20/1
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A
Volte
|
Volt
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||
| 20/2
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Ballet
|
Ballet
des Folles
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cf:
Dd.9.33 57v/3-58/1 Dolmetsch 137v Board 43/2
Besard 1603 151/2
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| 20/3
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A
Volte
|
Volt
|
Mercure
d'Orléans
|
Besard
1603 161v/3-162/1
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| 20v/1
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Allmayne
by mr Robert Johnson
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Hit
it and Take it Almain
|
Robert
Johnson
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Board
41/4-41v/1 Krakow 9v/2-10/1
Mathew 1652 34-5
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| 20v/2-21/1
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A
gallyard
|
Galliard
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Robert
Johnson
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Euing
49/2 Board 19/1 Pickeringe 36/2
Dd.9.33 45v/2-46/1 and 74v
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| 21/2
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A
gallyard
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Galliard
|
Charles
Bocquet
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Besard
1603 128v Krakow 7v-8 Vallet 1615 78 Aegidius 29v-30 [It. tabl.]
Dolmetsch 76v-78 and 253v-254
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| 21v/1
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Volte
John Sturt
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Volt
|
John
Sturt
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Nn.6.36
27/1
Krakow 6
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| 21v/2-22/1
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Corant
John Sturt
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Courant
|
John
Sturt
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Nn.6.36
27v Swarland 2v/2
Krakow 11v-12
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| 22/2
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Corant
|
Courant
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Jacques
Gauthier [probably]
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Herbert
46v/1
St Petersburg 73v-74
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| 22/3
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A
Prelude John Sturt
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Prelude
|
John
Sturt
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Board
44/3
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| 22v/1
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A
Pauin by Mr Robert Johnson
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Pavan
|
Robert
Johnson
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Herbert
60v/1
Aegidius 75v
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| 22v/2-23
|
Lacrime
Pauin by mr John Dowland
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Lachrimae
Pavan
|
John
Dowland [15]
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see
separate list
|
| 23v-25/1
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the
Battle
|
Battle
Pavan
|
Folger
19v-21v/1 Dd.2.11 29v-31/1 Dallis 60-67
cf: Pickeringe 52v-54 (dt)
| |
| 25/2
|
Corant
|
Courant
|
Mercure
d'Orléans/ René Saman
|
Schele
64/1 and 87 ML 25/2 Dowland 1610B 32v Herbert 65/1 Fuhrmann 1615 162/2 Werl 91 Basle 11-12 Moy 1631 31v
Aegidius 122v-123
|
| 25v/1
|
Courante
|
Courant
La Bontade
|
Robert
Ballard
|
ML
25v/1 Ballard 1611 47-9 Dolmetsch 189v-190 Werl 74 and 150 Moy 1631 16 Fuhrmann 1615 163/1
cf: Dolmetsch 60v-61
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| 25v/2-26/1
|
Galliard
|
|||
| 26/2
|
A
Corant in [?] p[ar]tes
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Courant
de la Reine
|
Robert
Ballard
|
Schele
56/1 Ballard 1611 50/2-52
ML 26/2
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| 26/3
|
the
Canaris
|
Canaries
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cf:
Fuhrmann 1615 146/2
| |
| 26v/1
|
Corant
|
Courant
|
Nn.6.36
26v
Krakow 8v-9/1
| |
| 26v/2-27/1
|
Corant
|
Courant
Le Testament
|
Julien
Perrichon [18]
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ML
26v/2-27/1 Herbert 30/2 Dolmetsch 178v-179 Vilnius 4v/1 Besard 1603 156/2 Dd.9.33 56v/1 Nürnberg 20 and 27 Moy 1631 10 cf same first strain: Ballard1611B 33/2-35 Herbert 33/1-33/2 4th down: Vilnius 4v/2 Besard 1617 26/2 Dolmetsch 18v-19
Aegidius 106
|
| 27/2
|
A
Corant
|
Courant
|
||
| 27/3
|
An
Almayne
|
Almain
|
||
| 27v/1
|
A
galyard
|
Galliard
|
||
| 27v/2-28/1
|
A
Corant
|
Courant
|
Vilnius
56/1
| |
| 28/2
|
An
Almayne
|
Almain
|
FWVB
no.147
| |
| 28/3
|
An
Almayne
|
Almain
|
||
| 28v-29/1
|
a
pauin
|
Mrs
Anne Markham's Pavan
|
Francis
Cutting
|
Cosens
48v-49 31392 36v-37 Pickeringe 21v-22/1 Dd.9.33 32v-33
Euing 33/2
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| 29/2
|
Mad
Tom of Bedlam
|
Gray's
Inn Maske/ Mad Tom of Bedlam
|
Trinity
137 Board 31v/1 and 44/4-44v/1 Wemyss 18v-19
GB-Lbl Add.Ms.10444 44
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| 29v/1
|
La
Courant Sarabande
|
?Robert
Ballard
|
St
Petersburg 37/2 Pickeringe 42 Schele 63/1 Ballard 1611 57/2-58/1 Ballard 1614 37/2-39/1 Valerius 1626 239 Aegidius 33 Dolmetsch 20v-21 Stobaeus 53v and 54/2-54v/1 de Bellis 68 Vallet 1615 83
cf: Moy 1631 24v
| |
| 29v/2-30/1
|
A
Pauin
|
Pavan
|
Lodovico
Bassano
|
Dd.2.11
43
31392 19v/2-20
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| 30/2
|
graysin
maske
|
Gray's
Inn Maske
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Board
38v/2
ML 32/2
| |
| 30v/1
|
The
Devil's Dance
|
|||
| 30v/2
|
the
first tune of the lordes maske
|
First
Tune of the Lord's Maske
|
Board
27v
| |
| 30v/3
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second
tune ofthe Lordes maske
|
Second
Tune of the Lord's Maske
|
||
| 31
|
a
Corant
|
Courant
|
Board
38v-39
| |
| 31v-32/1
|
a
pauin of mr Robert Johnson
|
Pavan
|
Robert
Johnson
|
Herbert
55v-56/1
|
| 32/2
|
Gray's
Inn Maske
|
Board
38v/2
ML 30/2
| ||
| 32v
|
Maske
tune/Almain
|
Dd.5.78.3
74v/2
Dd.9.33 67/3
| ||
| 33v/1
|
Almain,
first part of duet
|
|||
| 33v/2
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Almain,
second part of duet
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