Sheet music
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Measurements
252 x 327 mm
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Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
NT 495295
Summary
Small fragments of lute tablature, handwritten sheet music on paper. Incomplete sheets, consists of many small pieces. Eleven fragments have been mounted on paper and positioned in a card mount, the fragments have been pieced together, identified as originally consisting as one sheet. Sixteen fragments are loose, stored in a melinex sleeve. Three of these fragments are a maroon colour on one side. The remainder of the fragments depict parts of handwritten words, seemingly in two different hands. Also in the melinex sleeve is a piece of linen, hemmed (and possibly once gathered) along one edge with the remains of some stiches showing.
Provenance
Found at the property in 1994, between floorboards