Dear Denys and Arthur,
Thank you for the leads. I will ask about the possibility of a
microfilm.
It's interesting that the Haslemere is not connected to the Siena
after all. Indeed the Siena looks like a professional undertaking with
specific requests as to its contents and looks to be done for the most
part at one sitting. I was very intrigued by the possibility of
Vestiva colli and others intabulated in the same style as the vocal
works in Siena.
best regards,
Sean
On Apr 4, 2012, at 3:22 PM, A. J. Ness wrote:
Dear Sean,
The handwriting is NOT the same!!!!! Jacob was writing when in some
quarters
the mss were thought to have the same scribe. The person who made that
claim realized in 1999 that he was mistaken, and has since corrected
himself.
The manuscript in question, by the way, is Ms II.C.23 in the Dolmetsch
Library at Haslemere, which was most likely copied by several different
scribes in Savona for a member of the della Robbia family, and came to
Florence
as dowry around 1634 when Vittoria II della Robbia (daughter of the last
Duke of Urbino) married Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The Siena manuscript in The Hague is named according to information on
the
engraved spine on the 19th-century binding which reads "Italienische
Lautentabulatur gefunden in
Siena 1863 F[ranz] G[ehring--the purchaser]." It has a Siena watermark
and a
layer of pieces by Siennese lutenist/composers. Its careful, uniform
paleography suggests that it was copied in a music scriptorium by one
professional scribe.
See the detailed autopsy report with concordances on the Haslemere
MS made *in situ* by John
H. Robinson (with notes by Robert Spencer)
and published in the Dolmetsch journal *The Consort* 26 (2006).
AJN.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Smith" <[email protected]>
To: "lute" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 3:14 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Haslemere ms.
Jacob Heringman writes about the similarity of the scribes between the
Siena ms. and a Haslemere manuscript in the booklet that
accompanies his
recording of the former. Is this available?
"Dolmetsch Library in Haslemere (MS II C23)"
many thanks in advance,
Sean
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