Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.4.22

Source

Cambridge Digital Library

Library

Cambridge. Cambridge University Library

Shelfmark

• MS Dd.4.22

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q210099

Date

• c. 1615 C.E.

Title

• Almain Lorrain
• Jig
• Passamezzo galliard
• Passamezzo galliard
• Spanish pavan
• Lord Zouche's march/maske
• Quadro pavan
• Quadro galliard
• To plead my faith
• Preludium
• Untitled
• Preludium
• Courant
• Preludium
• The noble men's maske tune
• Jig
• Courant
• Almain
• The prince's almain
• Almain
• Courant
• Masque dance?
• Courant
• Fortune, my foe
• Mounsieur's almain
• Untitled
• Prelude
• Instructions on rhythm
• see more

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Richard Allison (156.?-160.?)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Richard Allison (active 1588-1606)
  • Allison, Richard, active 1588-1606

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q32574

• Preferred form

  • Daniel Bacheler (1572-1618)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Daniel Bacheler (1572-1619)
  • Bacheler, Daniel, 1572-1619

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q32371

• Preferred form

  • Robert Johnson (1583-1633)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Robert Johnson (approximately 1583-1633)
  • Johnson, Robert, approximately 1583-1633

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q32607

• Preferred form

  • John Sturt (15..-1625)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • John Sturt (active 1607-1625)
  • Sturt, John, active 1607-1625

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q32497

• Preferred form

  • John Dowland (1563?-1626)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • John Dowland (1563?-1626)
  • Dowland, John, 1563?-1626

  Other form

  • Dowland, John

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdata9c3748e82e26340bb53ece8cff5c6eaf9469ba50

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q9628

• Preferred form

  • John Bull (1562?-1628)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • John Bull (-1628)
  • Bull, John, -1628

  Other form

  • John Bull
  • John Bull (1562-1628)

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdata9fd5e6840ff2a76c3bc189c3589e8585cccd6706

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q9608

Description

• Dd.4.22 is a manuscript of modest size with just 25 items in lute tablature copied c.1615 onto 24 pages in a single hand (plus two more items in mensural notation for keyboard copied inverted at the other end). It is not one of the manuscripts copied by Mathew Holmes, but has a related shelf number (allocated around 1753 when the library holdings were catalogued, i.e. adjacent to his solo cittern book Dd.4.23).

  The majority of the tablature is copied in the same hand that entered a few items in the lute book of Henry Sampson (London, Royal Academy of Music, MS 602) and Holmes' manuscript Dd.9.33, and wrote out a single loose leaf of lute tablature found recently in Westminster Abbey library (London, Westminster Abbey, MS 105, see Peter Holman, 'A New Source of Jacobean Lute Music', The Lute xxxix (1999), pp. 7–15). Thus it is most likely to have arrived at Cambridge University Library from Westminster in the same bundle as the Holmes manuscripts.

  The contents also tie in closely with the court, with composers represented who were employed there or were associated with royal maskes or with music for the London theatres, including almaines by Robert Johnson (1) and John Sturt (1), lute solos by Richard Allison (1), John Dowland (1) and Daniel Bacheler (2), as well as maske dances (3), almaines (5), jigs (2) and courantes (3), and settings of the popular tunes Fortune my foe, Monsieur's Almaine and The Spanish Pavan.

  This small anthology also includes clues that its owner was a student who used it for private study with a page of instructions on rhythm and some easier lute solos, as well as orphaned single parts of 3 lute duets, suggesting the owner had companions with lute books containing the other parts for social music making. He or she seems to have copied the first 6 items, but then most of the rest were copied by the hand known from other lute books mentioned above, who may have been the teacher, or else a later owner.

  John H. Robinson, Lute Society

Place

• Preferred form

  • London. Westminster Abbey (United Kingdom)

  Original form

  • Westminster

  Other form

  • [Westminster]
  • England, Westminster
  • Westminster, England
  • England, London/Westminster
  • Great Britain England Westminster.
  • see more

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/ldataa89508463fad120ff29d876c17be79a4d16e3473

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q31881

Rights

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License

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Digitisation

• http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00004-00022/1

Manifest URL

• https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-DD-00004-00022