MS Dd.4.22 (MS Dd.4.

22)
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
Information about this document

Physical Location: Cambridge University Library

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Classmark: MS Dd.4.22

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Subject(s): Lute music

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Origin Place: Westminster

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Date of Creation: c. 1615 C.E.

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Extent: a-d + 28 + e-h (fols 12v-27r are blank and have not been photographed)
Leaf height: 264 mm, width: 195 mm. Staff height: 15-16 mm, width: 156-157
mm.

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Collation:

The manuscript consists of 3 quires as follows:

Four modern paper flyleaves (fols a-d)

Quire 114 (fols 1-14)
Quire 212 (fols 15-26)
Quire 32 (fols 27-28)
Four modern paper flyleaves (fols e-h)

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Material: Paper

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Format: Codex

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Condition:

The outer edges of the text block are discoloured and slightly damaged by dirt and
damp throughout, although repairs have been carried out.

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Binding:

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.

The manuscript was previously bound in 1962 by the Cambridge firm Grays. It was
quarter-bound in leather with marbled paper sides and vellum-tipped corners.

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Accompanying Material: The manuscript is accompanied by a small (57-65 x

190 mm) book made up of quarter-page blank sheets printed with two staves. This
volume is paginated 29-83. These sheets were previously bound in a single volume
with pp. 1-28 but were removed when the manuscript was conserved in 2006. The
blank volume is bound in the same format as the main volume and stored
alongside it in a custom-built box. It has not been digitised.

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Script:

The majority of the contents and italic titles are written in a single hand named
by Harwood as Hand X. The same hand has been identified in several other lute
manuscripts, including CUL MS Dd.9.33.
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The items on fols 27-28 at the back of the manuscript written upside down are in a
different italic hand.

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Foliation:

Modern pencil foliation in the top right hand corner of every recto (fols 1-28).

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Layout:

Each page is marked with eight 6-line staves ruled in brown ink. Vertical lines are
marked down the right and left margins of the page to enclose the staves.

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Additions:

On fol. 1r the shelfmark "Dd-4-22" is written twice in eighteenth-century hands.

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Provenance:

As noted, the hand of the scribe of this manuscript has been found in other lute
manuscripts. In CUL MS Dd.9.33 this same hand completes a piece started by
Mathew Holmes and writes "finis" at the end. This suggests that the anonymous
scribe was a close associate of Holmes who was 'chanter' and singingman at the
abbey from 1597 until his death in 1621.

It is presumed that MS Dd.4.22 entered the University Library collection along with
the Mathew Holmes manuscripts at some point after 1621 but when and how is not
known. The first reference to Dd.4.22 in Cambridge is in CUL MS Oo.7.53, a
manuscript catalogue of the library compiled in 1753.

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Data Source(s): This catalogue entry is based upon an inventory prepared by
John H. Robinson of the Lute Society.

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Author(s) of the Record: Suzanne Paul

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Bibliography:

Modern Editions

Simpson, Claude M., The British broadside ballad and its music (New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1966).

Long, Martin (ed.), Daniel Bacheler: selected works for lute (London: Oxford

University Press, 1972).

Sundermann, Albert (ed.), Robert Johnson: complete works for solo lute (London:

Oxford University Press, 1972).

Jeffery, Brian, "The lute music of Robert Johnson", Early Music vol. 2 pp. 105-109
(1974).

Poulton, Diana and Basil Lam (eds), The collected lute music of John
Dowland (London: Faber Music, 1981).

Sabol, Andrew J., Four hundred songs and dances from the Stuart masque: with a
supplement of sixteen additional pieces (Hanover, NH; London: Published for
Brown University Press by University Press of New England, 1982).

Robinson, John and Stewart McCoy (eds), The solo lute music of Richard Allison:
with bandora and cittern arrangements (London: Lute Society Music Editions,
1995).

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Brookes, Virginia, British keyboard music to c.1660: sources and thematic
index (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).

Secondary Literature

Dart, Thurston, "New Sources of Virginal Music", Music & Letters vol. 35 issue. 2

pp. 93-106 (1954) http://www.jstor.org/stable/729419.

Lumsden, David, The sources of English lute music (1540-1620) (PhD thesis

Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1957).

Harwood, Ian, "The Origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts", Lute Society

Journal vol. 5 (1963).

Nordstrom, Lyle, "The Cambridge consort books", Journal of the Lute Society of

America vol. 5 pp. 70-103 (1972).

Boetticher, Wolfgang, Handschriftlich überlieferte Lauten- und Gitarrentabulaturen

des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts: beschreibender Katalog, International inventory of
musical sources (RISM). B vol. 7 (München: Henle, 1978).

Poulton, Diana, John Dowland (London: Faber, 1982).

Holman, Peter, "A new source of Jacobean lute music", The Lute vol. 39 (1999).

Craig-McFeely, Julia, English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-

1630 (2000) http://www.ramesescats.co.uk/thesis/ Accessed: 2014-02-25
17:29:56.

Spring, Matthew, The lute in Britain: a history of the instrument and its

music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
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Robinson, John H., Sources manuscrites en tablature: Daniel Bacheler [1572-

1610] (2006) http://w1.bnu.fr/smt/bacheler.htm Accessed: 2014-11-27.

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Almain Lorrain (image 3, page 2r)Jig (image 3, page 2r)Passamezzo galliard (image 4,
page 2v)Passamezzo galliard (image 4, page 2v)Spanish pavan (image 5, page 3r)Lord
Zouche's march/maske  (image 6, page 3v)Quadro pavan (image 8, page 4v)Quadro
galliard (image 11, page 6r)To plead my faith (image 12, page 6v)Preludium (image 13,
page 7r)Untitled (image 13, page 7r)Preludium (image 14, page 7v)Courant (image 14,
page 7v)Preludium (image 15, page 8r)The noble men's maske tune (image 16, page
8v)Jig (image 17, page 9r)Courant (image 18, page 9v)Almain (image 19, page 10r)The
prince's almain (image 19, page 10r)Almain (image 20, page 10v)Courant (image 20,
page 10v)Masque dance? (image 21, page 11r)Courant (image 21, page 11r)Fortune, my
foe (image 22, page 11v)Mounsieur's almain  (image 23, page 12r)Untitled (image 26,
page 27v)Prelude (image 27, page 28r)Instructions on rhythm  (image 28, page 28v)