It is now over 500 years since the publication (on the last day of December 1508) of Dalza’s Intabulatura de lauto. It was the fourth lute book published by Petrucci, the first two being the two volumes of Spinacino and the third the (lost) book of Giovanni Maria Alemani.
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Cambridge University Library MS Add.3056 probably dates from around 1610, but most of the music is for a seven-course lute. The copyist drew on a number of continental and English sources, including John Danyel’s song book of 1606. This unusual piece, untitled and anonymous, is not found in any other source,
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