GB-Lbl Add. MS 29247 (Paston MS)

British Library, London, England

Lute intabulations: after 1611

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 29247 (Paston MS)
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format Oblong 4º
Notations
  • lute tablature
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Contents Contains 140 compositions, 136 from 27 composers, 4 are anonymous.
General Description

Contains Lute intabulations of (or accompaniments to) anthems, madrigals, and motets, generally arranged according to the number of voices for which they were originally written. Volume Two of two (the first being Add. MS 29246). In this volume pieces for 5 voices (nos. 1-72) and for 6 voices (nos. 73 to end).

DIAMM, 2019
Binding

contemporary blind-tooled calf

DIAMM, 2017
Ownership

One of the Paston MSS, compiled at the behest of Edward Paston.

Belonged in the 19th century to Joseph Warren. It was purchased by the British Library from a sale of Puttick and Simpson on 28 June 1872.

DIAMM, 2019
Foliation

Original foliation to 74 in ink; modern foliation to 77, in pencil

DIAMM, 2017
Index

There is an index on both sides of fol. 2

DIAMM, 2017

35v

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