Drexel 4257
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Drexel 4257, also known by an inscription on its first page, "John Gamble, his booke, amen 1659" is a music manuscript commonplace book. It is the largest collection of English songs from the first ha
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Folio 3 recto, containing the first page of "The Cattalogue"
Binding information from the inside back cover of Drexel 4257
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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 4257
…repertoire and of the period covered, Drexel 4257 is closely related to other 17th-century English music manuscripts: 2240 (British Library Deposit), Drexel 4041 (New York Public Library), Don.c.57 (Bodleian Library), Add. 29,396 (British Library), Add. 11,608 (British Library), MS B.1 (Bodleian Library), Add…
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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