DATE: c1615
Page measurements: 295 x 195 mm[1]
Fragments in upright folio format. This book, its scribes and date are discussed in Chapter 7. The type of lute and the repertory suggest 1615, not simply because of John Sturt, but because composers such as Perrichon and Cato were only just becoming popular 1610-15, though the Perrichon is concordant with Dd.9.33. The scribal concordances with Dd.9.33, Dd.4.22 and Sampson make it unlikely that the book dates from 1620, but is more likely to be in the c1615 bracket. The lack of published solo lute music make dating concordances awkward, but the songs on 13v-14 are from Leighton's Teares of the Muses (1614). The spine describes the book as 'Psalms Musical by Allison', and the solo lute music is interspersed with lute songs and written by the same scribes.
Bibliography: [Facsimile] British Library Manuscripts, Part I: English Song 1600-1675. (New York, 1975).
Lumsden 1957A
John Stevens: Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court CambridgeStudies in Music (Cambridge, 1961 repr. 1979)
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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mrCandishe
Almaine Almaine
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Almain
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Cavendish
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| 2/2
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[n.t.]
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| 2/3
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[n.t.]
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| 2v/1
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Curranto
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Volt/Courant
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Julien
Perrichon/ (Mathias Mason)
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Vilnius
1v/1 and 2/2 Dd.9.33 75 Fuhrmann 1615 171/1 Herbert 27/1 Dresden 92 Bautzen 18 de Bellis no.24 Beckmann no.13 cf: Dolmetsch 12v-13 Dlugoraj 253v
Board 29/1 same first strain]
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| 2v/2
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Curranto
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Courant
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John
Sturt
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Nn.6.36
27v ML 21v/2-22/1
Krakow 11v-12
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| 3
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Awake
ye woful weights...
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Damon
and Pithias
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Richard
Edwards
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| 3v
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O
deathe, O death rock me a sleepe...
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| 4
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O
heavenly God...
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Nicholas
Strogers
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| 4v-5
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Jam:
Ha: MiserereB: Da: psalme 5i
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Miserere
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?James
Harding
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| 5v
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Deprofundis
psalme i30
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| 6
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Miserere
my maker...
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| 6v
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alack,
When I look back...
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William
Byrd
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| 7
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but
yett if euer sinfull man,...
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John
Dowland
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| 7v-8/1
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O
God geiue Eare...
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William
Byrd
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| 8/2
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thoughe
yo are younge and Iam older
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[band.]
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ThomasCampion
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| 8v-9
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Vt
re my fa sol la By Dyomedes / Vt re my fa soll la By Dyomedes
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FantasiaUt
Re Mi Fa Sol La
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Diomedes
Cato
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Herbert
2v-3
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| 10v
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a
dialogue / the answer on the other sid.
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| 11
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Answer
/ if dayntie daphnes lookes befitt... [torn out]
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| 12
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Sayefonde
love...
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Variant
of Humour Say
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John
Dowland
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| 12v-13
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Deliver
me from myne Enimies...
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Robert
Parsons
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| 13v
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Come
let us singe to god...
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[from
Leighton's Teares (1614)]
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| 14/1
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An
heart thats broken...
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John
Dowland
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[from
Leighton's Teares (1614)]
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| 14/2
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yeeld
unto god...
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Robert
Johnson
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[from
Leighton's Teares (1614)]
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| 14v
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In
youthlye yeeres...
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| 15
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unto
my Paine a mournfull moude...
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Robert
Johnson
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| 15v/1
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If
my complaints...
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If
my complaints
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John
Dowland
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| 15v/2
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Treade
Junos steps...
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| 16
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Synce
my Joyes...
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| 16v-17
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O
Sacrum convivium
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| 17v
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Have
you seene but a Whyte Lillie...
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| 18
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The
poore soule sate sighinge...
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| 18v
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My
trewe love hath my hart...
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[from
Sidney's Arcadia]
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| 19/1
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I
must complaine...
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| 19/2
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haue
I Caught my heavenlye Jewell...
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[from
Sidney's Arcadia]
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| 19v-20
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Mr
Birde
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O
god but god
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William
Byrd
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| 20v
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Come
my Celia...
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| 21
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It
was a tyme when Sillye Bees...
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| 21v/1
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[keyboard
piece]
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| 21v/2
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What
yf I seeke for loue of thee...
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Robert
Jones
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[
Jones First book of Songs (1600)]
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| 23
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faine
would I...
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[1] I am most grateful to Mr Conway, the Superintendent of the Manuscript Students Room in the British Library, for confirming these measurements.
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