DATE: c1575
Page measurements: 215 x 285 mm
Household or Personal Anthology in oblong folio format. Bought by the library from Grant's booksellers, Edinburgh, on 24 March, 1945. Grant's is no longer in existence. The paper, particularly the last gathering, suffers from foxing. The binding has been replaced, as Lumsden's description in 1957 shows: 'Well-worn leather binding, tooled in gold (much faded). Remnants of fastening tapes still in position. Monogram 'I B' on front and back. Very dilapidated condition, with damp marks showing throughout.' The ties no longer exist, though the holes are still visible, and the binding itself, though retaining the original boards is now very tight and it is not therefore possible to see the collation of all the book clearly. The surface of the leather appears to have been used as a board for cutting and pricking leather for stitching, and is certainly battered. The restoration, of which the library has no detailed record, was undertaken around 1965 when the manuscript was prepared for microfilm photography, though judging by the state of the MS in the microfilm, further restoration work has since been done, mainly to the lower half of the fore-edge from f.75 onwards, with repairs to the whole edge from f.93 to the end. The work appears to have been fairly successful as far as restoring the music to legibility is concerned. Damaged corners are reinforced with gauze, and even with the foxing all the music is now visible, despite Lumsden's comment that 'the bottom right-hand corner becomes progressively more worn, obscuring many bars of tablature, particularly cadences.' There appear to be some single sheets among what should be the first few gatherings, but it is not possible to tell whether this is an original feature of the front of the book, or whether it is the result of repair work. Unfortunately Lumsden does not list the gatherings or describe the collation. The contents suggest a certain amount of disturbance at this point, indicating that any division of the first gatherings probably dates from after the copying of the book. The date of the MS and its original purpose are cause for some contention--both matters are discussed at length, and with variable plausibility, in Ward 1992.
Bibliography: Lumsden 1957A (dated c1615)
Spencer 1974B (dated c1590)
Boetticher 1978 (dated c1590-1605)
Rooley 1980 (dated c1580)
Julia Craig-McFeely: 'The Thistlethwaite Lute Manuscript' Unpubd paper, RMA
Music Research Student's Conference, December 1987 (dated 1575)
Ward 1992 (dated late 1560s andearly 1570s)
folio |
original
ascription
|
title
|
composer
|
cons.
& cogs.
|
| 2-3/1
|
The
most asso[red] / Tribill
|
Dump,
duet treble
|
Dd.3.18
71v-72 Schele 16/3 Marsh 150-151/1 | |
| 3/2
|
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 3v-5v
|
P.A.
Pavan
|
408/2
86/2 Stowe389 123 | ||
| 6
|
Galliard
|
|||
| 6v-7
|
a
galliard
|
Galliard
|
Marsh
57
| |
| 7v-8
|
Galliard
|
|||
| 8v-9v/1
|
A
paven. / a pavan
|
Pavan
|
Marsh
82-83 408/2 107/2-108/1 | |
| 9v/2
|
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 10v
|
Pavan
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 11v-13v
|
Galliard
|
|||
| 14v
|
Ground
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 15
|
Quadran
Pavan [frgmt]
|
|||
| 15v-17v
|
pavan
quadro
|
Quadran
Pavan
|
||
| 18/1
|
f.r.
[ga ?]
|
Galliard?
|
J
R
|
|
| 18/2
|
Exercise?
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 18v-22 |
f. / .F. .f. |
Fantasia |
Francesco da Milano |
|
| 22v-24v/1
|
.F.
|
Fantasia
|
Francesco
da Milano
|
|
| 24v/2
|
[n.t.]
|
|||
| 25
|
[n.t.]
|
|||
| 25v-26
|
f
.f. .F.
|
Fantasia
|
Francesco
da Milano
|
|
| 26v-28v
|
.f.
|
Fantasia
|
Francesco
da Milano
|
|
| 29v-31v
|
f
/ .f.
|
Fantasia
|
Francesco
da Milano
|
Marsh
236/2-238
|
| 32
|
.S"io
fostri certo di douer morire ..... il morire
|
Villanella
S'io Fostri Certo
|
||
| 32v-34
|
.F.
|
Fantasia?
|
||
| 34v-35
|
O
tu che mi dai quai ..... quasta mia vita
|
O
Ta Che Mi Dai by Luca Marenzio
|
||
| 35v-36
|
Galliard
|
Henry
Lichfield
|
Marsh
58/2-59
| |
| 36v-37
|
madona
|
Madonna
|
||
| 37v-39
|
Suzanne
Un Jour
|
Lassus
arr.
|
Dallis
100-101 and 138-139/1 Dd.2.11 23v-24/1 Herbert 67v Thysius 169v/2-181 (cnst pts) Wickhambrook 13v-14/1 | |
| 40v-43
|
.fl.
.F.
|
Fantasia?
|
||
| 43v-44/1
|
.F.
|
Fantasia?
|
||
| 44/2
|
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 44v-47
|
.T.
/ .T.
|
Stabat
Mater
|
see
Ward 1992
| |
| 47v-50
|
.r.
.B. / T. f.
|
Benedicta
es Coelorum Regina?
|
Josquin
des Pres arr.
|
Thistlethwaite
81v-84
|
| 50v-51
|
Fantasia
|
|||
| 51v-52
|
.F.
|
Fantasia
|
Francesco
da Milano
|
|
| 52v-53
|
T
|
Toccata?
|
||
| 53v-54v
|
[n.t.]
|
|||
| 55v
|
[n.t.]
|
|||
| 58v-62v
|
B2
|
[n.t.]
|
||
| 63v-64
|
gallirda
|
Galliard
|
||
| 64v-65
|
Passamezzo
|
|||
| 65v-67
|
Fancy
|
|||
| 67v-68
|
[intabulation]
|
|||
| 68v-70
|
A
galliard
|
Galliard
|
||
| 70v-71
|
Ground,
A Down
|
Dd.2.11
94/2
| ||
| 71v-73
|
Fancy
|
|||
| 73v-74v
|
a
fantasia
|
Fantasia
|
Dd.2.11
25v
| |
| 75v-77v/1
|
[n.t.]
|
|||
| 77v/2-78
|
a
fantasie by mr marchant for ii lutes
|
Fantasia,
first part of duet
|
||
| 78v-80
|
[n.t.]
|
|||
| 81v-84
|
benedicta
|
Benedicta
es Coelorum Regina
|
Josquin
des Pres arr.
|
Thistlethwaite
47v-50
|
| 84v-86/1 |
a fansi de francesco [?] de melayne |
Fantasia |
Francesco da Milano |
|
| 86/2
|
[intabulation]
|
|||
| 86v
|
[frgmt]
|
|||
| 87v-89
|
A
pavyan
|
Heaven
and Earth/ King's Pavan
|
RA58
52/4 & 55v Osborn 1v-2v/1 Sampson 4/1 | |
| 89v-90
|
Galliard
|
|||
| 90v-92v
|
Fantasia
|
Alberto
da Rippe
|
||
| 93v-95v
|
s[cri]ps[it]
me Thisstllethwaite
|
Passamezzo
Pavan
|
Thistlethwaite
|
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