Dear lute netters, some of you may know that the Euing lute manuscript contains texts written upside-down on some pages.
On the bottom of folio 41r which contains Holborne's Posthuma pavan there is a relatively long text written in a very small hand upside-down. I have managed to identify the text - in the hope it may help to date the manuscript. It is a translation of the famous 23. psalm - know from dozens of Westerns and even science fiction films. "Unfortunately" this version is drawn from a book published in 1679 - much later than the lute music. See The Psalms of David-, by John Patrick, D.D. Preacher to the Charter House, London:—London 1679. In HISTORY OF THE Scottish Metrical Psalms; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PARAPHRASES AND HYMNS, AND OF THE MUSIC OF THE OLD PSALTER. by J. W. MACMEEKEN, Glasgow, 1872 there is an appendix with 42 [sic!] versions of the 23. psalm and this version appears only once. Therefore I have little doubts rewarding its origin. Rainer To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
