{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin", "value": "c. 1615. Westminster.

The hand of the scribe of this manuscript has been found in other lute manuscripts. In Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.33<\/a>, this same hand completed a piece started by Mathew Holmes and wrote 'finis' at the end. This suggests that this anonymous scribe was a close associate of Holmes, who was 'chanter' and singingman at the abbey from 1597 until his death in 1621.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Westminster." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Codex: iv + 28 + iv leaves. Leaf height: 260 mm, width: 195 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "c. 1615." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.4.22" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "

Classmark 'Dd-4-22' written twice by eighteenth-century hands (f. 1r<\/a>).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Lute music" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Pink, H. L." }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Codex" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "This catalogue entry is based upon an inventory prepared by John H. Robinson of the Lute Society." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Bound in 2006 at Cambridge University Library in an Espinosa limp vellum style binding, sewn on seven split alum-tawed supports laced through limp vellum covers with an alum-tawed spine, fastened with two bone clasps. <\/p>

The manuscript was previously bound in 1962 by Gray of Cambridge. It was quarter-bound in leather with marbled paper sides and vellum-tipped corners.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "

The outer edges of the text block are discoloured and slightly damaged by dirt and damp throughout, although repairs have been carried out.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

The majority of the contents and titles are written by a single hand in italic<\/i> script (Harwood, 'Hand X'). The same hand has been identified in several other lute manuscripts, including Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.33<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>

The items on ff. 27r-28v<\/a> are written in italic<\/i> script, upside down, by a different hand. <\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

MS Dd.4.22 is a manuscript of modest size with just 25 items in lute tablature copied c.1615 onto 24 pages by 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, indicating its placement adjacent to his solo cittern book, MS Dd.4.23).<\/p>

The majority of the tablature is copied by 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<\/a>, 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<\/i>, 39 (1999), 7\u201315). Thus it is most likely to have arrived at Cambridge University Library from Westminster in the same bundle as the Holmes manuscripts.<\/p>

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<\/i>, Monsieur's Almaine<\/i> and The Spanish Pavan<\/i>.<\/p>

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. <\/p>

John H. Robinson, Lute Society<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.4.22" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Suzanne Paul" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "