Yale

DATE: c1560

Page measurements: 160 x 230 mm

Household or personal anthology in oblong quarto format. Ward suggests that what are now the first and last leaves were probably originally used as a wrapper, and he identifies three scribes. The MS is discussed in detail in Ward 1992.

The watermarks appear to date from the 1540s to 1550, and the mixing of the paper suggests that it was originally a collection of loose leaves, though original foliation suggests that they are in the original order. Francesco da Milano is the only composer mentioned, but concordances between both early and slightly later sources provide some others, all supporting this approximate date.

Bibliography: Lumsden 1957A

Ward 1992

folio	original ascription	title	composer	cons. & cogs.
1/1	A songe	Lute Song [in tabl. and s.n.]
1/2	The tender love that dredethe losse	Lute Song: The Tender Love [in tabl. and s.n.]
1v-2v/1	the kinges Pavane	Heaven and Earth/ King's Pavan		RA58 52/4 & 55v Sampson 4/1 Thistlethwaite 87v-89
2v/2-3v/1	A pavane	Pavan
3v/2-4/1		Galliard	Luys de Narváez
4/2-4v	Holloy=ne p[ar]dye	Passamezzo		Osborn 31v/1
5/1		[n.t.]
5/2-6/1	the olde p[ar]dye	P.A.
6/2	Sithene I have yow sene	Sithen I Have You Seen
6v/1	A galliarde	Galliard
6v/2-7/1	pavana	Passamezzo Pavan
7v/2-9/1	A fancye of Francys myllayne	Fantasia	Francesco da Milano	Willoughby 6v-7v
9/2	O god yt art my ryghtuusnes	Psalm 4: O God That Art My Righteousness
9v-10/1	Artheres du[m]pe	Arthur's Dump	Philip van Wilder	Marsh 175/2-176 and 426/2-428 Osborn 9v-10/1
10/2-11v/1	the base of spayne	Variations on a Spanish Ground
11v/2		[n.t.]
12	paxcy measure	Passamezzo Pavan d'Angleterre		Dallis 71/1
12v	begin all Agayne A gallyard	Romanesca Galliard
13-14v/1	A fancye	Fancy
14v/2-16/1		Fancy
16/2-17	A fantazia frauncis de myllayne	Fantasia	Francesco da Milano	Osborn 16/2-17 Marsh 94 Willoughby 8-9/1
17v-18/1		Chanson: Je File	Philip van Wilder arr.	Brogyntyn 14 4900 62
18/2-18v/1		Chanson: C'est a Grand Tort	Claudin de Sermisy arr.
18v/2-19/1	A pauin	Pavan
19/2-19v/1	traditore galliarde yow must sett downe the greate basse to ye cownterTennor in bothe ye pavin & galliard	Traditore Galliard
19v/2	Marke Antonys gallyarde	Galliard	Marc Antoine
20-31		Poetry, recipes and remedies
31v/1	Pardye I saydenot soe	[n.t.]		Osborn 4/2-4v
31v/2	A point	Fancy [guitar]
32/1	Care who so wyll	Care Who So Will [guitar]
32/2	Philips Songe	Song [guitar]	Philip van Wilder
32v/1	yf care Do cawse men crye	If Care Do Cause Men Cry [guitar]		RA58 52/3 Stowe389 120/2
32v/2	to tune the l[a]wt bye thes stopes	Tuning Table
33-39v		Poetry
40-44		[guitar]
44v-57v		Poetry

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