Thank you, Martin! alxndr
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:34:16 +0000 Martin Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
