SOURCES MANUSCRITES EN TABLATURE
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES IN TABLATURE

Vol. IV. Grande-Bretagne (en préparation)

CAMBRIDGE, University Library (GB-Cu)
Add. 8844 (olim Reading, Berkshire Record Office, Add. MS 6)

33 f. 296 x 202 mm. Unbound manuscript copied c. 1595 probably by William Trumbull [d. 1635], except f. 32v copied in a different hand. The manuscript remained in the family at Easthampstead Park, Bracknell until loaned 1954-1989 to Berkshire Record Office, Reading by the Seventh Marquess of Downshire, Arthur Wills Percy Wellington Blundell Trumbull Sandys Hill (1894-1989). Notation french. Lute with 6 or 7 courses (G c f a d’ g’).

 

1

‘To his Verie ffrend Mr Jno Reynoldes merchaunt in melcombe Regis to his good frend Mr Wm Holman merchaunt ill / to the Woorshippfull Henrie Rogers Esquier’ [in left margin]

1

1

[Fantasia, Anthony Holborne, inverted on page]
HolborneK, no 3; HolborneS, no 3.

2

1v-2

[The Hunt is Up, duet treble, John Johnson?]
cf. no 3; JohnsonB, no 71.

3

2

[The Hunt is Up, duet ground, John Johnson?]
cf. no 2.

4

2

[What if a Day, Thomas Campion?]

5

2v-3

[The Sacred End Pavan, Thomas Morley]
cf. A-LIa 475, f. 23; D HRD Fü 9829, ff. 22v-23 ‘Pavana Sacradent’; D-LEm II.6.15, pp. 98-9 & 106-7 ‘Pauana Sacradenti’; GB-Cu Dd.9.33, ff. 25v-26; NL- Lu 1666, f. 148 ‘The sacred ende’.

6

3v

Nowe to bed / dat mout ich hebben

 

3v

‘to his assured ffriend Wm T Trumball’ [in left margin]

7

4

The passinges meseuers galiard 16 sem[i]bri[ves]

8

4

A galliard Mr Clark [Clark's Galliard/ Quadran Galliard/Jest, Anthony Holborne]
HolborneK, no 31; HolborneS, no 33.

9

4v-5

Delight. [Delight Pavan, consort part, John Johnson]
JohnsonW, no 1; JohnsonB, no 5.

10

5v-6

A pauan mr Johnson [Pavan, John Johnson]
JohnsonW, no 15a; JohnsonB, no 4.

11

6

Inominie galliard [Nicholas Strogers]
EIRE-Dtc 410/1, p. 93; GB-Cu Dd.9.33, f. 60v; GB-Lbl Egerton 2406, f. 17; GB-Lbl Hirsch 1353, f. 3.

12

6v-7

the new Medly. [John Johnson?]
JohnsonB, no 47.

13

7v-8

Augusti[nes] pavan. [Augustine Bassano]
cf. GB-Cu Dd.2.11, ff. 64 & 67 [bandora]; GB-Lbl 29485, ff. 10-10v ‘Pavana Bassano’ [keyboard].

14

8

A galliard mr knowles
cf. A-LIa 475, f. 25 ‘Galliarda englessa’; CH-Bu Ms F.IX.70, p. 318 ‘Galliarda Anglicana’; EIRE-Dtc Z3.2.13, p. 319; US-NH Ma21 W632, f. 17.

15

8v-9

Augustines pavan. [Augustine Bassano]
cf. GB-Lbl Egerton 3665, ff. 520v-521 ‘Pavana Augustin Bassano’ [à5].

16

9v

A galliard

17

9v

Stanes Morris.

18

10

The flat pavan. [consort part, John Johnson]
cf. no 25 & 30; JohnsonW, no 3; JohnsonB, no 13.

19

10v-11

The quadrant pauan. [duet treble]
GB-Cu Dd.3.18, ff. 5v-6; GB-Lbl Egerton 2046, ff. 9v-10

20

11v-12

The galliard to the quadrant pavan [duet treble]
GB-Cu Dd.3.18, ff 6v-7; GB-Lbl Egerton 2046, ff. 12v-13

21

12v-13

a pauan Mr Holburne
HolborneK, no 4; HolborneS, no 5.

22

13

the Earl of Essikes measure

23

13v-14

A pavan
GB-Cu Dd.2.11, f. 55 ‘My Lady P. Pauan’

24

14v

A galliard / dat mout ich hebben [Anthony Holborne]
HolborneK, no 5, HolborneS, no 26.

25

15

[Flat Pavan, second part of duet, John Johnson]
cf. no 18 & 30; JohnsonW, no 3; JohnsonB, no 13.

26

15

[The Queen's Almain / Une Jeune Fillette, etc.]

27

15v-16

[The New Hunt is Up, duet treble, John Johnson]
JohnsonW, no. 39, JohnsonB, no. 62.

28

16v-17

Strogers In nomine [Nicholas Strogers]
cf. GB-Lbl Hirsch 1353, f. 2v.

29

17

Grownd to Sh[arp]: pa[van]: tr[eble]: [duet ground, Richard Allison]

30

17v-19

[Flat Pavan, duet treble, John Johnson]
cf. no 25 & 18; JohnsonW, no 3; JohnsonB, no 13.

 

18-18v

[page stub]

31

19

gli: cuttings [Passion Galliard, Anthony Holborne or Francis Cutting]
HolborneK, no 34; HolborneS, no 36.

32

19

[Galliard R. B.] [Robert Baker or Robert Bateman?]
GB-Cu Dd.2.11, f. 679-11 & f. 806-8.

 

19v

[blank staves]

 

20-20v

[page stub]

 

21

[blank staves]

33

21v-23

[Si Vous Voulez, Philip van Wilder]
cf. JohnsonB, n° 48.

 

22-22v

[page stub]

34

23v-24v

the Spanish pavan
cf. JohnsonB, n° 42.

35

24v-25

Proueribus

36

25

Alo [John Dowland]
DowlandCLM, no 68.

37

25v

[Rogero, 2 versions of duet ground, John Johnson]
cf. no 38; JohnsonW, no 42; JohnsonB, no 61.

38

25v

[Rogero, duet treble, John Johnson, bars 1-23 only]
cf. no 37.

 

26-29

[stubs of torn out pages, 27v and 28v with fragments of staves with tablature]

39

29v

[tablature fragments on the ends of 8 staves on page stub]
cf. FerraboscoC, n° 3; FerraboscoN, n° 3a ("Fantasia").

 

30-30v

[page stub]

 

31-32

[blank staves]

40

32v/1

[Galliard, first part of lute duet, cf. no 41]

41

32v/2

[Galliard second part of lute duet, cf. no 40]

 

33

[blank staves]

42

33v

[Galliard, duet part]

 

33v

‘nostre Roy yne de A Angl’ [bottom margin]

RISM B VII, p. 298.

Diana Poulton, ‘Checklist of some recently discovered English lute manuscripts’, Early Music iii (1975), pp. 124-6.- Robert Spencer, The Trumbull Lute Book, c. 1595, facsimile edition (Clarabricken: Boethius Press, 1980).

Abbreviations

HolborneK

Masakata Kanazawa, The Complete Works of Anthony Holborne, Volume I: Music for Lute and Bandora, Harvard Publications in Music, 1 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1967).

HolborneS

Rainer aus dem Spring, ed., Anthony Holborne Music for Lute and Bandora, 2 vols. (The Lute Society Music Editions, 2001).

JohnsonW

John M. Ward, The Lute Works of John Johnson, Monuments of the Lutenist Art III (Columbus: Editions Orphée, 1994).

JohnsonB

Jan W. J. Burgers, John Johnson: Collected Lute Music, volumes I & II (Lübeck: Tree Edition, 2001).

 

John H. ROBINSON.