| 1186 | [SC60]
The Robert Creighton keyboard manuscript
Paris, Bibiothèque nationale, MS 1186
Probably compiled in the 1630s by the elder Robert Creighton
For a short discussion of the manuscript see [SC60], page 159. |
| 15118 | London, British Library, Add. MS. 15118 |
| 24665 | Giles Earle his Booke
London, British Library, Add. MS. 24665
Solo songs, cantus and continuo |
| 2764(2) | GB-Cambridge University Library, Add.2764(2)
Scraps of manuscript lute music recovered from bindings of printed books.
See [Har64] |
| 29246 | London, British Library, Add. MS 29247
One of five lute manuscripts from the collection of Edward Paston
The Paston lute books are discussed in [McC86] |
| 29485 | The Susanne van Soldt's manuscript
British Library, Add. Ms. 29485
33 pieces for keyboard dated c.1600
Modern edition: [Cur61] |
| 30485 | London, British Library, Add MS 30485
An early 17th century collection of keyboard music by English composers.
See [SC60], page 160 and [Bro71], page xx. |
| 3056 | The so-called Benjamin Cosens Lute Book
Cambridge University Library, Addendum 3056 |
| 31392 | Addendum 31392
London, British Library, Add. MS. 31392 |
| 33748 I | Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Ms. 33748, I |
| 33933 | London, British Library, Add MS 33933
CONTRA-TENOR PART Of the music to the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566, etc., written by Thomas Wode, afterwards [1576] Vicar of St. Andrews. |
| 36484 | David Melvill's Bassus book
London, British Library, Add. MS 36484 |
| 3665 | The Francis Tregian manuscript of ensemble music
London, British Library, MS Egerton 3665
One of the vast score books compiled by the Catholic recusant Francis Tregian
Modern facsimile edition: [D'A88]
The manuscript contains motets, madrigals and other vocal music and two sequences of instrumental music by Alfonso Ferrabosco II and by several other composers. The latter is discussed in [Hol93], chapter 7.
See also [SD51] and [Col54]. |
| 40032 | Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Mus. ms 40032
Olim: Berlin, Preußsische Staatsbibliothek, Musikabteilung |
| 40141 | The so-called Nauclerus Lute Book ('Lautenbuch des Johannes Nauclerus')
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv, Mus. ms. 40141 |
| 4022 | Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv, Depositum Danzig Ms. 4022
Olim: Danzig (today Gdańsk) MS 4022
For a short discussion and 40 pieces in keyboard notation see [Stę65]. |
| 40316 | Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Mus. ms 40316
Olim: Berlin, Preußische Staatsbibliothek, Musikabteilung
85 leaves of keyboard music |
| 408/1 | The Ballet Lute Book
Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 408/1, pp. 1–75
Olim: D.1.21
Note: Bound (and paginated) with the completely unrelated
408/2.
For a detailed study of the book see [War68]. |
| 408/2 | Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 408/2, pp. 76–113
Olim: D.1.21
Note: Bound (and paginated) with the completely unrelated
408/1
For a detailed study of the book see [War68]. |
| 5.2.14 | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 5.2.14 |
| 5609 | Sir John Hawkins's manuscript
New York, New York Public Library, Drexel MS 5609
This late eighteenth century book, copied by Sir John Hawkins, contains copies of seventeenth century keyboard music, most
pieces drawn from 1186 and BL Add. Ms. 10337 |
| 5612 | New York, Public Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center, Drexel MS 5612
A large folio containing about 230 pages of keyboard music by English composers of the first half of the 17th century.
See [SC60], page 159 |
| 9450 | Robert Edward's commonplace book
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS 9450
Olim: Panmure 10
See [War81], pages 198-200 |
| Balcarres | Manchester, John Rylands Library, The Balcarres Lutebook |
| Barley (L) | William Barley
A nevv Booke of Tabliture, …
London, 1596
Brown: 15965
Modern edition: [New66] |
| Barley (O) | William Barley
A nevv Booke of Tabliture for the Orpharion
London, 1596
Brown: 15965
Modern edition: [New66] |
| Basel F.IX.53 | Basel, öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, Musiksammlung, ms F.IX.53
Modern facsimile edition: [Cha90] |
| Bautzen | The Bautzen Lute Book
Kreis- und Stadtbibliothek Bautzen, Altbestand und Regionalkunde, MS 13.4°85
Manuscript additions to Bésard's Thesaurus Harmonicus |
| Bellerophon | D. P. Pers
Bellerophon
Amsterdam, 1657 |
| Besard 1603 | Jean Baptiste Bésard
Thesaurus Harmonicus
Köln, 1603 |
| Board | The Board Lute Book
London, Royal Academy of Music, Robert Spencer Collection, MS 603
Olim: The private library of Robert Spencer
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe76]
See also [Spe75b], [Pou75a] and [Pou75b]. |
| Boteler | The so-called Boteler-Cittern Book
Cambridge, Massachusets, the private library of John M. Ward
The book is discussed in [War81], appendix M. |
| Brogyntyn | The Brogyntyn Lute Book
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn Ms. 27
Modern facsimile edition: [SA78] |
| Browne | The Browne (formerly Braye) Bandora and Lyra
Viol Manuscript
London, Royal Academy of Music, Robert Spencer Collection, MS 600
Olim: The private library of Robert Spencer
See [Nor92] for a short description and an inventory. |
| Cfm 782 | The so-called John Bull Manuscript
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Mu.Ms. 782
Olim: 52.d.25 |
| Corkine 2nd Book | William Corkine
The Second Booke of Ayres
London, 1612 |
| CS | Anthony Holborne
The Cittharn Schoole
London, 1597
Brown: 15976
Modern editions: [Kan73], [Mön77], [Mön78]
Modern facsimile edition: [Hol73] |
| Dallis | The (so-called) Dallis Lute Book
Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 410/1
Olim: D.3.30/I
Note: Bound with the unrelated MS 410/2, the 'Dublin Viginal Manuscript'.
For a detailed discussion of the book see [W67] and [War70].
Concerning Dallis, see also [Har76]. |
| Dd.14.24 | The cittern part book of the so-called Cambridge Consort Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.14.24
The Cambridge Consort Books Dd.14.24, Dd.3.18, Dd.5.20 and Dd.5.21are discussed in [Nor72].
See also [War81], pages 137–141. |
| Dd.2.11 | The first of the Matthew Holmes Lute Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.2.11
The Holmes manuscripts are discussed in [Har63] and [Pou82].
For a very interesting recent discovery concerning the Latin poem on the 'cover page' of Dd.2.11 see [Har98]. |
| Dd.3.18 | The lute part book of the Cambridge Consort Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.3.18 |
| Dd.4.22 | Cambridge University Library, Ms.Dd.4.22 |
| Dd.4.23 | Cambridge University Library, Ms. Dd.4.23 |
| Dd.5.20 | The bass viol part book of the Cambridge Consort Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.5.20 |
| Dd.5.21 | The recorder part book of the Cambridge Consort Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.5.21 |
| Dd.5.78.3 | The second of the Matthew Holmes Lute Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.5.78.3
The book was re-bound (or bound?) in 1893, resulting in the displacement of a number of folios and the loss of others. |
| Dd.9.33 | The third of the Matthew Holmes Lute Books
Cambridge University Library, Dd.9.33 |
| Delitiae | Joachim van den Hove
Delitiae musicae sive cantiones …
Utrecht, 1612
Modern edition: [Mön] |
| Dolmetsch | Haslemere, Dolmetsch Library, MS II.B.1
A lute book probably compiled in Bavaria c.1620 |
| Dresden 297 | Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Handschriftenabteilung, Ms. M 297 |
| Eijsertt | The Michael Eijsertt of Nürnberg Lute Book
Linz, Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek, manuscript without shelf number |
| Euing | The Euing Lute Book
Glasgow, University Library, Euing MS 25
Olim: R.d.43 |
| Eysbock | Elisabeth Eysbock's Keyboard Book
Copenhagen, Kunglia Musikaliska Akademiens Bibliotek, Tablature No. 1
A manuscript in German organ tablature dating from c.1600
See [Dar62] |
| Fabritius | The Petrus Fabritius Lute Book
Copenhagen, Det kongelige Bibliothek, MS Thott 841.4°
Copied in Rostock , c.1604–08 |
| Florida | Joachim van den Hove
Florida sive cantiones …
Utrecht, 1601 |
| Folger | Ms.V.b.280 (olim 1610.1) |
| Forbes | John Forbes
Songs and Fancies
Aberdeen, 1662
2nd edition: 1666, 3rd edition: 1682 |
| Forster | Will Forster's Virginal Book
London, British Library, Royal Music Library Manuscript 24.d.3 |
| Fuhrmann | Georg Leopold Fuhrmann
Testudo Gallo-Germanica
Nürnberg, 1615 |
| FWVB | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Mu. MS 168
Olim: MS 32.G.29
Probably compiled by the younger Francis Tregian
Modern edition: [MS99]
See [Col53] and [Cun95]. |
| Hagius | Conradus Hagius
Newe Kunstliche Musicalische Intraden …
Nürnberg, 1616 |
| Hainhofer | Philipp Hainhofer's Lute Books
Wolffenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod.Guelf. 18.7.2° and Cod.Guelf. 18.8.2°
A lute manuscript in ten parts bound into two volumes written out by Philipp Hainhofer
For a very detailed study see [Lüd99] |
| Herbert | Lord Herbert of Cherbury's [recte: Chirbury] Lute
Book
Fitzwilliam Museum, MU. MS. 689
Copied by Edward Herbert (1582–1648), the well known poet, philosopher and womanizer, brother of
George Herbert.
For a discussion of the book see [Dar57], [Pri69], [Spr87] and [CM91].
Concerning Herbert's facsinating life see [Shu76] and [But90].
A facsimile edition of the book has been announced by éditions Minkoff. |
| Hirsch | The Hirsch Lute Book
London, British Library, MS Hirsch M.1353
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe82] |
| II.6.15 | Leipzig, Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig, Ms. II.6.15
German lute tablature for a lute with six courses, dated 1619.
Note: This manuscript is often (but incorrectly) called 'Długoraj Lute Book' |
| III.11.26 | Leipzig, Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig, Ms. III.11.26
Modern facsimile edition: [Rey98] |
| Köln R242 | Elisabeth Romers's Lute Book
Köln, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Ms. R 242 |
| Königsberg | The Königsberg Manuscript
Central Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Manuscript
285-MF-LXXIX
Olim: Preußisches Staatsarchiv, Königsberg, Msc. A116. fol.
Modern facsimile edition: [WN89] |
| La.III 488 | Mure of Rowallan's Vocal Manuscript
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS La. III 488 |
| Lilliat | John Lilliat's Commonplace Book
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. Poet. 148
Modern [facsimile?] edition: [Dou85] |
| Logonomia | Alexander Gil
Logonomia Anglica
London, 1619 |
| LoST | John Dowland
Lachrimæ or Seaven Teares …
London, 1604
Modern edition: [Hun85]
Modern facsimile editions: [Edw74a], [EMS92] and [Per98]
For a detailed discussion of the book see [Hol99]. |
| Lüneburg 2000 | Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei und Stadtarchiv, Ms. Mus. ant. pract. 2000 |
| Lust-hof | Jan Janszoon Starter
Friesche Lust-hof
Amsterdam, 1621 |
| M. L. | The M. L. Lute Book
Olim: The Sturt Lute Book
London, British Library, Additional MS 38539
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe85b]
For a detailed discussion see [Kap86] |
| Marsh | The Marsh Lute Book
Dublin, Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh,
Ms.Z3.2.13
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe81]
The book is discussed in [War69]. |
| Montbuysson | The so-called Montbuysson Lute Book
Kassel, Murhard'sche Landesbibliothek, Ms. 4° Mus.108(1)
For a detailed study see [Kni93] |
| Morley 1599 | Thomas Morley
THE FIRST BOOKE OF CON- / sort Lessons …
London, 1599 [second edition: 1611]
Modern edition: [Bec59] |
| Mynshall | The Mynshall Lute Book
London, Royal Academy of Music, Robert Spencer Collection, MS 601
Olim: The private library of Robert Spencer
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe75a]
See also [Lum55], [Spe75b], and [Pou75a]. |
| Nevell | My Ladye Nevell's Booke
Private library of the Marquis of Abergavenny, no shelf mark
Modern edition: [And26]
See also [Bro71], page 170 |
| Nn.6.36 | The fourth of the Matthew Holmes Lute Books
Cambridge University Library, Nn.6.36 |
| Och 431 | Oxford, Christ Church Library, Mus. 431
A volume of keyboard music dating from about 1635
See [Dar63], page 225 |
| Och 437 | Oxford, Christ Church Library, Mus.437
A volume of organ parts to sacred music, containing some music for solo keyboard on the first twelve leaves.
See [Hen62], page 92 |
| Och 439 | Oxford, Christ Church Library, MS Mus.439
A bassus part, probably for instrumental ensemble, c.1600 |
| Osborn fb 7 | Yale University, Beinecke rare book and manuscript library, James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn collection, Osborn fb 7 |
| Otley | Matthew Otley's Cittern Book
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Mus 181
Olim: *79M-44[3]
See [War81] |
| Parthenia | Parthenia; or, the Maydenhead of the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls
London, c.1612
Modern edition: [Dar60] |
| PGA | Anthony Holborne
Pavans, Galliards, Almains, and other short æirs…
London, 1599
Brown: 15996
Modern editions: [Bec40], [Tho80]
Modern facsimile edition: [Gra] |
| Pickering | The Pickering Lute Book
London, British Library, Egerton MS. 2046
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe85a] |
| Playford1651 | John Playford
The English Dancing Master [1st edition]
London, 1651 |
| Playford1652 | John Playford
A Booke of New Lessons FOR THE CITHERN & GITTERN: …
London, 1652
This is the second edition of a lost book published in 1650 or 1651.
The book is discussed in [War81] |
| Playford1666 | John Playford
Musick's Delight ON THE CITHREN, …
London, 1666
This may be a second edition of a lost book.
The book is discussed in [War81] |
| Pratum 15846 | Emmanuel Adriaenssen
PRATVM MVSICVM, LONGE AMOENISSIMUM, …
Antwerp, 1584
Brown: 15846
Modern facsimile edition: [Yon77] |
| Recreation | Richard Allison
An HOWRES RECREA- / tion in Musicke, apt for Instruments and Voyces.
London, 1606
Songs for four and five voices |
| Rest | Valentin Haußmann
Rest VOn Polnischen vnd andern Täntzen
Nürnberg, 1603 |
| Robinson 1603 | Thomas Robinson
THE SCHOOLE OF MVSICKE: …
London, 1603
Modern facsimile edition: [Rob73]
Modern edition: [Lum76] |
| Robinson 1609 | Thomas Robinson
New Citharen Lessons
London, 1609
Modern edition: [CC97]
See [War81], [Har78] and [San78] |
| Rogers | Elizabeth Rogers's Virginal Book
London, British Library, Add MS 10337
A volume mainly of keyboard music, but also containing some songs, compiled c.1656.
See [Sar71] and [Cof75]. |
| Rymen 1647 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1647 |
| Rymen 1652 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1652
With a separte bassus part book |
| Rymen 1655 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1655 |
| Rymen 1675 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1675 |
| Rymen 1680 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1680 |
| Rymen 1688 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1688 |
| Rymen 1690 | Dirck Raphaelsz Camphuysen
Stichtelycke rymen
Amsterdam, 1690 |
| Sampson | The Sampson Lute Book |
| Schermar 130 | The Anton Schermar part books
Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Depositum Schermar, MSS 130a–b
Discant and bass part books written out by Anton Schermar in 1620 ('Verus possessor Anthonius Schermar Vlm die 29 Julij. A[nn]o. 1620') |
| Skene | The Skene Mandore Book
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv.MS 5.2.15 |
| Thysius | The Thysius Lute Book
Leiden, Rijksuniversiteitsbibliotheek, Thysius 1666, 'Luitboek van Johan Thysius'
Olim: MS 133.1.63
The book is discussed in [Lan89]. |
| Trésor d'Orphée | Antoine Francisque
LE TRESOR D'ORPHéE …
Paris, 1600
Modern facsimile edition: [Fra73]
Moder edition: [Qui06] |
| Trumbull | The Trumbull Lute Book
Cambridge University Library, Addendum 8844
Olim: Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull Additional Manuscript No. 6
Modern facsimile edition: [Spe80] |
| Valerius | Adrian Valerius
NEDER-LANDTSCHE GEDENCK-CLANCK
Haarlem, 1626
Modern facsimile edition: [Val74] |
| Vallet 1615 | Nicolas Vallet
Le Secret des Muses Vol. I
Amsterdam, 1615
Modern facsimile edition: [GB92]
Modern edition: [SR70] |
| Varietie | Robert Dowland [and John Dowland?]
Varietie of Lute-lessons: …
London, 1610
Modern facsimile edition: [Hun58]
The book is discussed in [Bal79] and [Tay92].
For a discussion of John Dowland's possible co-authorship see [Tay92]. |
| Virchi | Paolo Virchi
IL PRIMO LIBRO DI TABOLATURA DI CITTHARA …
Vineggia[Venice], 1574
Brown: 15746
Music for six course cittern tuned Dfbgde |
| Walsingham | The Walsingham Consort Books
Hull, University Library, Mss DD HO 20/1–3 [flute, treble viol and bass viol part books]
and
Oakland, California, Mills College Library, manuscript without shelf number [cittern part book]
See [Edw74c], [Edw74b], [Edw77] and [War81], pages 159–160, 203 |
| Welde | The Welde Lute Book
The private library of Lord Forester, 'John Welde's Lute Book'
For a discussion of the book see [Spe59]. |
| Wickhambrook | The Wickhambrook Lute Book
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, School of Music, Special Collections, MS Ma.21.W.623
Modern edition: [Ste63] |
| Willoughby | The Willoughby Lute Book
Nottingham, Nottingham University Library, Mi LM 16
The Lute Book written out by Sir Francis Willoughby
Modern facsimile edition: [AS78]
See [Dar54], [Lum55], [War92], [Ale77] and [Smi64] |
| Ale77 | Jeffrey Alexander. The Willoughby Lute Book, an Anthology. Master's thesis, Nottingham University, Nottingham, 1977. |
| And26 | Hilda Andrews, editor. My Ladye Nevells Booke (London, 1926). Reissued with a new introduction by Blanch Winogron, New York, 1969. |
| AS78 | Jeffrey Alexander and Robert Spencer. The Willoughby Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory study. Number 13 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1978). |
| Bal79 | Joseph Anthony Baldassare. A Discussion of the contents of Robert Dowland's Varietie of Lute Lessons (1610). Ph.D. thesis, Kent State University, Massachusetts, 1979. |
| Bec40 | Sidney Beck, editor. Pavans, galliards, almains, and other short airs. (The New York Public Library, New York, 1940). |
| Bec59 | Sidney Beck, editor. The First Book of Consort Lessons Collected by Thomas Morley 1599 & 1611, Reconstructed and Edited by Sidney Beck (C F Peters Corporation, New York, 1959). |
| Bro71 | Alan Brown, editor. William Byrd, Keyboard Music: II. Number XXVIII in Musica Brittannica (Stainer and Bell, London, 1971). |
| But90 | John A. Butler. Lord Herbert of Chirbury: An Intellectual Biography (Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990). |
| CC97 | William Casey and Alfredo Colman, editors. Thomas Robinson, New Citharen Lessons (1609) (Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas, 1997). |
| Cha90 | Claude Chauvel, editor. Tablature de Luth Française (XVIIe s.) (Minkoff, Genève, 1990). |
| CM91 | Julia M. Craig-McFeely. 'A Can of Worms: Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book'. The Lute, XXXI: pages 20–48, 1991. |
| Cof75 | Charles J. F. Cofone, editor. Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall Booke (New York, 1975). |
| Col53 | Elizabeth Cole. 'Seven Problems of the the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 79: page 51, 1952–1953. |
| Col54 | E. Cole. 'L'Anthologie de madrigaux et de musique instrumentale pour ensembles de Francis Tregian'. In Jean Jaquot, editor, 'La Musique instrumentale de la Renaissance', pages 115–126. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1954. |
| Cun95 | Anne Cuneo. 'Francis Tregian the Younger: Musician, Collector and Humanist'. Music and Letters, 76: page 398, 1995. |
| Cur61 | Alan Curtis, editor. Dutch Keyboard Music of the 16th and and 17th Centuries. Monumenta Musica Nederlandica (Amsterdam, 1961). |
| D'A88 | Frank A. D'Accone, editor. London, British Library MS Egerton 3665 (The Tregian Manuscript). Number 7 in Renaissance Music in Facsimile (Garland Editions, New York & London, 1988). |
| Dar54 | Thurston Dart. 'New Sources of Virginal Music'. Music and Letters, XXXV: pages 93–106, 1954. |
| Dar57 | Thurston Dart. 'Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute-Book'. Music and Letters, XXXVIII: pages 136–148, 1957. |
| Dar60 | Thurston Dart, editor. Parthenia 1612/13, Byrd, Bull, Gibbons. Number XIX in Early Keyboard Music Series (London, 1960). Second revised edition published in 1969. |
| Dar62 | Thurston Dart. 'Elizabeth Eysbock's Keyboard Book'. In Wilfried Brennecke and Hans Haase, editors, 'Hans Albrecht In Memoriam', pages 84–87 (Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1962). |
| Dar63 | Thurston Dart, editor. John Bull: Keyboard Music: II. Number XIX in Musica Brittannica (Stainer and Bell, London, 1963). |
| Dou85 | Edward Doughtie, editor. Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song [Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148] (University of Delaware Press;, Newark, 1985). |
| Edw74a | Warwick Edwards, editor. Lachrimæ or Seaven Teares…. Number 5 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Leeds, 1974). This edition is based on the copy in the Henry Watson Music Library, Manchester. |
| Edw74b | Warwick Edwards. The Sources of Elizabethan Consort Music. Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge, 1974. |
| Edw74c | Warwick Edwards. 'The Walsingham Consort Books'. Music and Letters, LV: pages 209–214, 1974. |
| Edw77 | Warwick Edwards, editor. Music for Mixed Consort. Number XL in Musica Brittannica (Stainer and Bell, London, 1977). |
| EMS92 | Warwick Edwards, Stewart McCoy and Robert Spencer, editors. Lachrimæ or Seaven Teares…. Number 5/ii in Musical Sources (Severinus Press, Newbury, 1992). This edition is based on the copy in the private library of Robert Spencer, now Royal Academy of Music. |
| Fra73 | Antoine Francisque, editor. Le Trésor d'Orphée (éditions Minkoff, Genève, 1973). Preface by François Lesure. |
| GB92 | Louis Peter Grijp and Jan Burgers, editors. Nicolaes Vallet, Secretum Musarum I. Number 3 in The Complete Works of Nicolaes Vallet (STIMU & Dutch Lute Society, Utrecht, 1992). |
| Gra | Hans-Wolfgang Grage, editor. Pavans, Galliards, Almains … [facs.] (Hans-Wolfgang Grage, Fiesteler Weg 49, Bad Essen). |
| Gre62 | David Greer. ''What if a Day'–-an Examination of the Words and Music.' Music and Letters, 43: pages 305–319, 1962. |
| Har63 | Ian Harwood. 'The Origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts'. Lute Society Journal, V: pages 32–48, 1963. |
| Har64 | Ian Harwood. 'The Cambridge Lute Manuscripts: A Postcript'. Lute Society Journal, VI: page 29, 1964. |
| Har76 | Ian Harwood. 'A Possible Dallis Reference?' Lute Society Journal, XVIII: page 46, 1976. |
| Har78 | Ian Harwood. 'Thomas Robinson's 'Generall Rules''. Lute Society Journal, XX: pages 18–22, 1978. |
| Har98 | Roger Harmon. 'Studies in the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts: ''Musica'''. Lute Society Journal, XXXVIII: pages 29–42, 1998. |
| Hen62 | Gerald Hendrie, editor. Orlando Gibbons: Keyboard Music. Number XX in Musica Brittannica (Stainer and Bell, London, 1962), first edition. Second revised edition published in 1967. |
| Hol73 | Anthony Holborne. The Cittharn Schoole [facs.]. Number 608 in The English Experience (Da Capo Press, New York, 1973). |
| Hol93 | Peter Holman. Four and Twenty Fiddlers, The Violin at the English Court 1540–1690 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993). |
| Hol99 | Peter Holman. Dowland: Lachrimae (1604). Cambridge Music Handbooks (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999). |
| Hun58 | Edgar Hunt, editor. Variety of Lute Lessons, A lithographic facsimile of the original edition of 1610, with an Introduction , and a Note on the Lute and Lute Tablature (Schott & Co. Ltd., London, 1958). |
| Hun85 | Edgar Hunt, editor. John Dowland: Complete Consort Music (Schott, London, 1985). |
| Kan73 | Masakata Kanazawa, editor. The Complete Works of Anthony Holborne, Vol. II: Music for Cittern. Number 5 in Harvard Publications in Music (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1973). |
| Kap86 | Ulrike Kapeller. Untersuchungen zu John Sturt's Lute book. Ph.D. thesis, Universität Köln, Köln, 1986. |
| Kni93 | Claudia Knispel. Das Lautenbuch der Elisabeth von Hessen. Ph.D. thesis, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, 1993. |
| Lan89 | J. P. N. Land. Het luitboek van Thysius beschreven en toegelicht door Dr. J.P.N. Land. (F. Muller & co., Amsterdam, 1889). Printed also in Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands muziekgeschiedenis, deel I-III, 1885–91. |
| Lüd99 | Joachim Lüdtke. Die Lautenbücher Philipp Hainhofers (1578–1647). Number 5 in Anhandlungen zur Musikgeschichte (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1999). |
| Lum55 | David Lumsden. The Sources of English Lute Music (1540–1620). Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1954–1955. |
| Lum76 | David Lumsden, editor. Thomas Robinson, THE SCHOOLE OF MUSICKE (1603) (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1976). |
| McC86 | Stewart McCoy. 'Lost Lute Solos Revealed in a Paston Manuscript'. The Lute, XXVI(1): pages 21–39, 1986. |
| Mön77 | Helmut Mönkemeyer. Anthony und William Holborne Fantasien und ''Short Aers''. Number 28 in Musica Instrumentalis (Musikverlag zum Pelikan, Zürich, 1977). |
| Mön78 | Helmut Mönkemeyer. Anthony Holborne, Die Cisterwerke aus der Schule von 1597. Number 21–22 in Die Tabulatur (Friedrich Hofmeister, Hofheim am Taunus, 1978). |
| Mön | Helmut Mönkemeyer, editor. Joachim van den Hove, Delitiae musicae, 1612. Number 13–16 in Die Tabulatur (Friedrich Hofmeister, Hofheim am Taunus). |
| MS99 | J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig, 1899). Reprints 1963 and 1980 (corrected and edited by Blanche Winogron) by Dover Publications. |
| New66 | Wilburn W. Newcomb. Lute Music of Shakespeare's Time: William Barley, A new Booke of Tabliture, 1596. (The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Penn., 1966). |
| Nor72 | Lyle Nordstrom. 'The Cambridge Consort Books'. Lute Society Journal, V: pages 70–103, 1972. |
| Nor92 | Lyle Nordstrom. The Bandora: Its Music and Sources. Number 66 in Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography (Harmonie Park Press, Warren, Michigan, 1992). |
| Per98 | Lachrimæ or Seaven Teares… (Performer's Editions, New York, 1998). This edition is based on the copy in the British Library. |
| Pin93 | David Pinto. 'Walter Earle and his Successors'. The Consort, XLIX: pages 13–16, 1993. |
| Pou75a | Diana Poulton. 'Checklist of some Recently Discovered English Lute MSS'. Early Music, III: page 124, 1975. |
| Pou75b | Diana Poulton. 'Graces of play in renaissance lute music'. Early Music, 3(2): pages 107–114, 1975. |
| Pou82 | Diana Poulton. John Dowland (faber and faber, London, 1982), second edition. |
| Pri69 | Curtis A. Price. 'An Organizational Pecularity of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute-Book'. Lute Society Journal, XI: pages 5–27, 1969. |
| Qui06 | Henri Quittard, editor. Antoine Francisque, Le trésor d'Orphée (Paris, 1906). |
| Rey98 | Albert Reyermann, editor. 15 Stücke für Renaissance-Laute, Handschrift Leipzig III.11.26 (Tree Edition, Lübeck, 1998). |
| Rob73 | Thomas Robinson. The schoole of musicke / Thomas Robinson. Number 589 in The English Experience (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Da Capo Press, Amsterdam, New York, 1973). |
| SA78 | Robert Spencer and Jeffrey Alexander. The Brogyntyn Lute Book with an introductory study. Number 12 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1978). |
| San78 | Susan G. Sandman. 'Robinson's Interpretive Left-Hand Fingerings for the Lute and Cittern'. Journal of the Lute Society of America, XI: pages 26–35, 1978. |
| Sar71 | George Sargent, editor. Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book. Number XIX in Corpus of Early Keyboard Music (American Institute of Musicology, New York, 1971). |
| SC60 | John Steele and Francis Cameron, editors. John Bull: Keyboard Music: I. Number XIV in Musica Brittannica (Stainer and Bell, London, 1960), first edition. Second revised edition published in 1967. |
| SD51 | B. Schofield and Thurston Dart. 'Tregian's Anthology'. Music and Letters, 32: pages 205–216, 1951. |
| Shu76 | J. M. Shuttleworth, editor. The life of Edward, first Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself edited with an introduction by J.M. Shuttleworth. Oxford English memoirs and travels (Oxford University Press, London, 1976). |
| Smi64 | R. Smith. The Willoughbys of Wollaton, 1500–1643. Ph.D. thesis, Nottingham University, Nottingham, 1964. |
| Spe59 | Robert Spencer. 'The Weld Lute Manuscript'. Lute Society Journal, I: pages 48–57, 1959. |
| Spe75a | Robert Spencer. The Mynshall Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory study and guide to concordances. Number 6 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Leeds, 1975). |
| Spe75b | Robert Spencer. 'Three English Lute Manuscripts'. Early Music, III: page 119, 1975. |
| Spe76 | Robert Spencer. The Board Lute Book [facs.]. Number 4 in Reproductions of Early Music (Boethius Press, Leeds, 1976). |
| Spe80 | Robert Spencer. The Trumbull Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory study and guide to concordances. Number 19 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1980). |
| Spe81 | Robert Spencer. The Marsh Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory note. Number 20 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1981). |
| Spe82 | Robert Spencer. The Hirsch Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory study and guide to concordances. Number 21 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1982). |
| Spe85a | Robert Spencer. Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory study and guide to concordances. Number 23 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1985). |
| Spe85b | Robert Spencer. The M. L. Lute Book [facs.] with an introductory study and guide to concordances. Number 25 in Musical Sources (Boethius Press, Clarabricken, 1985). |
| Spr87 | Matthew G. Spring. The Lute in England and Scotland after the Golden Age 1620–1730. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford, 1987. |
| SR70 | André Souris and Monique Rollin, editors. Œuvres de Nicolas Vallet pour Luth Seul, Le Secret des Muses (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1970). |
| Ste63 | Daphnee E. R. Stephens. The Wickhambrook Lute Manuscript. Number 4 in Collegium Musicum (Yale University Department of Music, New Haven, 1963). |
| Stę65 | Zofia Stęszewska, editor. Tańce polskie, z Tabulatury gdańskiej (I poł. XVII w.). Number 30 in Wydawnictwo Dawnej Muzyki Polskiej (Editions de Musique Polonaise Ancienne) (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, Kraków, 1965). This edition was published before the manuscript was rediscovered. |
| Tay92 | David S. Tayler. The Solo Lute Music of John Dowland. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. |
| Tho80 | Bernard Thomas, editor. Anthony Holborne: Pavans, Galliards, Almains, 1599 (London Pro Musica Edition, London, 1980). |
| Val74 | Adrianus Valerius. NEDER-LANDTSCHE GEDENCK-CLANCK [facsimile edition]. Number LXIII in Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, Second Series–-Music Literature (Broude Brothers Limited, New York, 1974). |
| W67 | John M. Ward and music 200. 'The Lute Books of Trinity College Dublin I: Ms.D.3.30/1: The so-called Dallis Lute Book'. Lute Society Journal, IX: pages 17–40, 1967. |
| War68 | John M. Ward. 'The Lute Books of Trinity College Dublin II: Ms.D.1.21: (The so-called Ballet Lute Book)'. Lute Society Journal, X: pages 15–32, 1968. |
| War69 | John M. Ward. 'The Fourth Dublin Lute Book'. Lute Society Journal, XI: pages 28–46, 1969. |
| War70 | John M. Ward. 'Additions to the Inventory of TCD MS. D.3.30/I'. Lute Society Journal, XII: pages 43–44, 1970. |
| War81 | John M. Ward. 'Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- & 17th Century England'. Lute Society Journal, XXI, 1979–1981. |
| War92 | John M. Ward. Music for Elizabethan Lutes (Oxford Univerity Press, Oxford, 1992). |
| WN89 | John M. Ward and Arthur J. Ness, editors. The Königsberg Manuscript (Editions Orphée, Columbus, 1989). |
| Yon77 | Kwee Him Yong, editor. PRATUM MUSICUM / LONGE AMOENISSIMUM, … (Frits Knuf, Buren (Gld.)/The Netherlands, 1977). |