Cittern MS Add. 4388 - Great Britain, London, British Library

Contents as taken by A. Hartig from a facsimile of the original.

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 title

notes

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88

 Fortune my foe / Treble string

Six single lines of tablature of the treble part only of "Fortune my foe". No rhythm signs are present.

  88v BLANK  
  89 [tuning charts and a fragment?]

The first tuning chart appears to be a chart of equivalences in three columns: Column one is labelled "Musical notes to C sol fa ut cliffe" with mensural notation; column two is labelled "for ye citheron" with tablature that corresponds to the first; column three is unlabelled and seems to contain only a few alternate tablature chords.

The second tuning chart appears to be of four rows meant to indicate unisons across strings. It appears roughly as follows:

Treble
-
-
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
k
Mean
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
k
l
m
Tenor
h
i
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
Base
d
e
f
g
h
i
k
l
m
n
o
p

The tablature fragment is part of a larger fragment labelled "Zephaniah". The larger fragment contains what appears to be letters/symbols in code(?), a mensural part marked "Cantus", the single-line tablature fragment which appears to read "a e f e f g h e d c b b a", another line in code(?), and an unmarked mensural part.

  89v [table] A table labelled "Zachary" with numbers in 3 columns. Could this be related to the "code" on the previous page or to any of the tablatures?
2 90 i psalme A psalm for 4 course chromatic cittern in Italian tuning.