Wasn't Per Brahe a famous astronomer? His lute book at the Sklottsbiblioteket in Skokloaster was indeed copied when he was a student in Giessen (about 1618). It is on the cusp of the baroque and contains works by Dowland, Vallet, Bocquet, and so looks backward rather than forward into the Baroque. I have a vague recollection about seeing some pages from it. A few German chorales. Rather sloppy handwriting, as I recall. Kenneth Sparr has written about it in the Swedish lute and guitar journal, Svenska gitar och luta 8/2 (1975): 40-2.
Alas, Thomas, I can't get too excited about it, except for its historical associations, and being perhaps representative of music favored by a university student in 1618. Arthur.
