Drexel 4041
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Drexel 4041 is a 17th-century British music manuscript commonplace book. As described by musicologist John P. Cutts, Drexel 4041 "is a treasure-house of early seventeenth-century song and dramatic lyr
Drexel 4041cover
Folio 1 verso: The first table of contents
Folio 2 recto: The second table of contents
Folio 132 recto: the copyist has copied the lyrics but left the music incomplete
Henry Lawes
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Henry Lawes was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century. He was elder brother of fellow composer William Lawes.
Drexel 4041
…auctioned by Sotheby's over the course of five days. The Sotheby catalogue entry for this manuscript reads: Songs (A Collection of), by Dr. John Wilson, Henry and William Lawes, Dr. Charles Colman, Robert Johnson, Thomas Brewer, John Taylor, John Atkins, and other Composers of the 17th century, calf, folio…
Manuscript of "I Rise and Grieve", in Lawes's hand