Dear lute netters, I seem to remember that recently somebody posted a list of sources with Spanish/Milan tablature including Neapolitan tablature.
In an article by Michael Fink (LSAQ XLIV, No.4, 2009, pp. 29-32) there is a list of such sources: Pesaro, Biblioteca Oliveriana, MS 1144 (c. 1490-95), pp. 101-103 London: British Library, C.48.h.l, See Antonio Corona-Alcalde, “The Earliest Vihuela Tablature: A Recent Discovery,” Early Music 20/4 (Nov. 1992): 594-600. Milan'S Maestro 1536 The Sulzbach books 1536 Barberiis 1549, a few pieces for guitar (the lute music is in Italian tablature) To these I have to add: Manual additions to the copy of Denss' Florilegium (1594) kept in Munich Any other sources? Rainer PS The Neapolitan tablature looks very strange to modern readers since it does not use the "0" for open strings. The reason might be that the zero was not generally accepted as a number in those days. Note: Using the digit "0" does NOT mean that you use the number zero! A clear concept/construction of real numbers was not achievd before the second half of the 19th century. Even in Gerolamo Cardano's (in)famous book "Ars Magna" (1545) with the solution of cubic equations - which he had stolen from Tartaglia and del Ferro - the zero is not used. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
