DATE: 1558
Page measurements: 235 x 170 mm[1]
Pedagogical book in oblong octavo format. The music in the book is to be found at the beginning and end of a volume of Statutes from Henry IV-VI. It is inscribed The xviij daie of maye the same / writtin by one Raphe bowle to learne / to playe on his Lutte in / anno 1558 (f.120), providing the date for the music as well as the name of the scribe and his purpose in writing. The contentsseem to be almost entirely arrangements of songs, often notated rather crudely.
Bibliography: Lumsden 1957A
John Stevens: Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court CambridgeStudies in Music (Cambridge, 1961 repr.1979)
Ward 1992
folio
Thistlethwaite 3v-5v
[1] I am most grateful to Mr Conway, the
Superintendent of the Manuscript Students Room in the British Library, for
confirming these measurements.
original
ascription
title
composer
cons.
& cogs.
1
[band.]
120/1
my
hearte ys leied on thelonde
My
heart is laid on the land
120/2
yf
care doe cause men[n] crie
If
Care Do Cause Men Cry
RA58
52/3
120v/1
[n.t.]
120v/2
G.R.I.T.
GRIT
121/1
[n.t.]
121/2
[n.t.]
121v/1-121/3
a
galliard uppon the same above at th other side the Leffe playe fyrste / This is
the begynnynge of the same behinde
Galliard
121v/2
de
tout La galliarde[s] Et recommenchies toutes
Galliard
121v/3-122
the
kynges pavvion
The
King's Pavan
122/2-122v
the
princis pavion
The
Prince's Pavan
123
e.
e. [obscure]
P.A.
Pavan
408/2
86/2
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