Dear Alexander,
I have facsimiles of both books. Board is reckoned to be about 1620s,
Burwell about 1670. Board contains no text, as such, only music.
Burwell is a lute tutor book (mostly text, very little music) copied by
Mary Burwell. It is from Burwell that the quote about catgut comes.
Best wishes,
Martin
On 02/01/2011 13:12, alexander wrote:
I have known John Downing to check and double check his references, as
any hypothesis can be derailed with an argument of a scholarly
sloppiness. I do not possess Mary Burwell's or Margaret Board's books,
but my understanding is that the Board's book is dated earlier (see
Checklist of some recently discovered English lute manuscripts from Oxford
Journal). If both include the phrase, it is very likely that it was copied by a
later author. Any one has both books at hand? alexander
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