Chronological List of Tablatures from the 1500's

The following chronological list includes existing plucked-string tablatures from 1500-1599, as well as sources known to have existed that are now lost. Eventually, links will be established for most entries, giving more complete bibliographical information. Note that the list contains primarily music in some form of lute or guitar tablature, not music in staff notation that might possibly have been played on the lute or other plucked string instrument.

The names of places have been given their modern English equivalent, for consistency, and the modern political names of the countries in which these cities are located have been added in brackets. The following sources were used in compiling this list:

[BOETTICHER 1979] = Boetticher, Wolfgang. "Zur inhaltichen Bestimmung des für Laute intavolierten Handschriftenbestands." Acta Musicologica 51:2 (Jul.-Dec., 1979): 193-203.

Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental Music Printed before 1600: A Bibliography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979)

[COELHO] = Coelho, Victor. The Manuscript Sources of Seventeenth-Century Italian Lute Music. (New York: Garland, 1995).

[CRAIG-McFEELY 1992] = Craig-McFeely, Julia. "Fragments of English Lute Music I: The British Library." Lute Society Journal (UK) XXXII (1992): 72-82

[CRAIG-McFEELY 1993] = Craig-McFeely, Julia. "Fragments of English Lute Music II: Oxford Libraries." Lute Society Journal (UK) XXXIII (1993): 34-54.

[NG] The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (New York: Grove, 2001)

[RISM A] Einzeldrucke vor 1800 (Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1971- ).

[RISM B] Recueils imprimés: XVIe-XVIIe siècles (München: G. Henle, 1960- ).

[RISM B/VII] = Boetticher, Wolfgang. Handschriftlich Überlieferte Lauten- und Gitarrentabulaturen des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (Munich: G. Henle, 1978)

[SMT] = Sources manuscrites en tablature: Luth et théorbe (c.1500-c.1800), Christian Meyer, ed. (Baden-Baden & Bouxwiller, Valentin Koerner, 1991- )

[TYLER] = Tyler, James. The Guitar And Its Music: From The Renaissance To The Classical Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

[TYLER 1980] = Tyler, James. The Early Guitar: A History and a Handbook (London: Oxford University Press, 1980)

[YAKELEY] = Yakeley, M. June. "New Sources of Spanish Guitar Music for the Five-Course Guitar." Revista de musicología 19:1-2 (1996): 267-286.

Also see the statistical survey of contents, for information about the type of genres included in each book and the extent of reprinted material in the sixteenth century.

By instrument:

Bandora

Cittern

4-Course Guitar

Lute

Mandore

Orpharion

Pandora

Vihuela

Composers--alphabetical list by composer

Manuscript Location--alphabetical list of manuscripts by modern location

Place of Publication--alphabetical by place of publication (prints only)

Printers--alphabetical list of printers

[ Lute Image ]

I-Bu MS 596. HH. 2 [c1500?-1560]
[BOETTICHER 1979 p. 202] (Naples? [Italy])
  • 7-course lute? in Neapolitan tablature
I-Vnm Lat. 336, coll. 1581, fol. 1 [1500?]
([northern Italy]) [see: Harrán, Don. "In Pursuit of Origins: The Earliest Writing on Text Underlay (c. 1440)." Acta Musicologica 50:1/2 (Jan.-Dec. 1978): 217-240.]
  • 6-course bass lute? in a fingerboard diagram with note names
F-Pn Rés. Vmd ms. 27 [1501-1510]
"Thibault Manuscript." (Venice? [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 228 (Ms. ohne Sig. IV); SMT I p. 113]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in Italian tablature (vocal parts missing)
Puerto 1504
Puerto, Diego del. Portus. Musice correctus seu emendatus in quo nemo periclitabitur . . . (Salamanca, [Spain]: J. de Porras)
  • music treatise (mentions vihuela)
Dall'Aquila 1505 [LOST]
Dall'Aquila, Marco. [Intabulatura de lauto?] (Venice, [Italy]: Marco dall'Aquila?).
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
Spinacino 1507a
Spinacino, Francesco. Intabulatura de Lauto, Libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
Spinacino 1507b
Spinacino, Francesco. Intabulatura de Lauto, Libro secondo (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
Giovan Maria 1508 [LOST]
Giovanni Maria Alemani. Intabulatura de Lauto, Libro Tertio (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Dalza 1508
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio. Intabulatura de Lauto, Libro Quarto (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablatur
Bossinensis 1509
Bossinensis, Franciscus. Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto Libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Bossinensis 1511
Bossinensis, Franciscus. Tenori e contrabassi intabuati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto Libro Secundo (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Virdung 1511
Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht und aussgezogen durch Sebastianum virdung . . . (Basel, [Switzerland]: Michael Furter).
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Schlick 1512
Schlick, Arnolt. Tabulaturen Etlicher lobgesang und lidlein uff die orgeln und lauten (Mainz, [Germany]: Peter Schöffern).
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and German tablature
CH-Fcu Cap. Rés. 527 [1513?-1519]
Falk, Peter. "Fribourg Manuscript." (Milan? [Italy]) [SMT I p. 31]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Bossinensis c1515
Bossinensis, Franciscus. Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto Libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Ottaviano Petrucci).
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
US-Cn Case MS VM C. 25 [1517-1520]
"Capirola Manuscript." (Venice? [Italy]). [RISM B/VII p. 79]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
A-Wn Ms. 9704 (Rec. 1711) [1519-1523]
Thurner, Jakob. "Lautenbüchlein des Jakob Thurner." (Vienna? [Austria]). [RISM B/VII p. 358; SMT III/1 p. 120]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Virdung 151?
Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht und aussgezogen durch Sebastianum virdung . . . (Augsburg?, [Germany]: Johann Schönsperger?).
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Additional 31389 [c1520]
(Venice, [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 180, incorrectly as 3rd quarter of the 16th century; see: Denys Stephens and John H. Robinson (eds.), British Library Additional Manuscript 31389: A Venetian Lute Manuscript of c1520. (London: Lute Society Music Editions, 2006)]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40154 [c1520]
"Deutsche Lautentabulatur." ([Germany?]) [RISM B/VII p. 28 (in D-B); SMT III/2 p. 128]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CH-Bu Ms. F.IX.56 [1522]
Amerbach, Bonifacius. "Bonifacius Amerbach Lute Book." (Avignon, [France]). [RISM B/VII p. 13; SMT I p. 11]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Judenkünig 1523
Judenkünig, Hans. Ain schone kunstliche underweisung (Vienna, [Austria]: Singriener).
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Judenkünig c1523
Judenkünig, Hans. Utilis & compendiaria introductio (Vienna, [Austria]: Singriener?).
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-Mu 4° cod. ms. 718 [1523-1524]
"Tabulaturbuch des Jorg Wiltzell." ([Germany?]). [RISM B/VII p. 226; SMT II p. 239]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Schlumberger 1525/32 [LOST]
Schlumberger, J. Cythare germanice tabulature (Mainz?, [Germany]: s.n.).
  • cittern
A-Wn Mus. Ms. 41950 [1525?]
"Blindhamers Lautentabulatur." [SMT II p. 301 (in D-WERl)] [South Germany?].
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
A-Wn Mus. Ms. 18688 [1526-1540]
Craus, Stephan. "Lautentabulatur des Stephan Craus." (Ebenfuth? [Austria]). [RISM B/VII p. 352; SMT III/1 p. 125]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Agricola 1529
Agricola, Martin. Musica Instrumentalis deudsch (Wittenberg, [Germany]: Georg Rhaw).
  • 6-course lute in organ tablature
Attaingnant 1529
Attaingnant, Pierre, publisher. Tres breve et familiere introduction (Paris, [France]: Pierre Attaingnant).
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 6-course lute (and voice?) in standard notation and French tablature
Vorsterman 1529
Vorsterman, Guillaume, publisher. Livre plaisant et tres utile (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Guillaume Vorsterman).
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
D-B Mus. ant.theor. F 100 [c1529- ]
(supplement to Attaingnant 1529; Italy?) [SMT II p. 19].
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Tromboncino 152?
Tromboncino, Bartolomeo, and Marco Cara. Frottole de Misser Bortolomio Tromboncino et de Misser Marcheto Cara con tenori et bassi tabulati et con soprani in canto figurato per cantar et sonar col lauto (Rome, [Italy]: L.A. Giunta).
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Agricola 1530
Agricola, Martin. Musica Instrumentalis deudsch (Wittenberg, [Germany]: Georg Rhaw)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in organ tablature
Attaingnant 1530
Attaingnant, Pierre, publisher. Dixhuit basses dances (Paris, [France]: Pierre Attaingnant)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and French tablature
Finé 1530
Finé, Oronce. Epithoma musice instrumentalis (Paris, [France]: Pierre Attaingnant)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in diagrams [no music]
Agricola 1532
Agricola, Martin. Musica Instrumentalis. Deudsch (Wittenberg? [Germany]: Georg Rhaw?)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in organ tablature
Gerle 1532
Gerle, Hans. Musica Teusch (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hieronymus Formschneider)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Gerle 1533
Gerle, Hans. Tabulatur auff die Laudten (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hieronymus Formschneider)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 1512 [1533-1550]
([Germany?]) [RISM B/VII p. 221; SMT II p. 225]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Casteliono 1536
Casteliono, Giovanni Antonio, publisher. Intabolatura de leuto de diversi autori (Milan, [Italy]: Giovanni Antionio Casteliono)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1536a
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura di liuto de diversi (Venice, [Italy]: Francesco Marcolini)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1536b
Francesco da Milano. Intavolatura de viola o vero lauto . . . Libro Primo (Naples, [Italy]: Joannes Sulzbach)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1536c
Francesco da Milano.Intavolatura de viola o vero lauto . . . Libro Secondo (Naples, [Italy]: Joannes Sulzbach)
  • 6-course lute in Neapolitan tablature
Luscinius 1536
Luscinius, Ottomar. Musurgia seu praxis musicae (Strasbourg, [France]: Johann Schott)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Milán 1536
Milán, Luis. Libro de musica de vihuela de mano (Valencia, [Spain]: Francisco Diaz Romano)
  • 6-course vihuela in inverted Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in inverted Italian tablature (with red numbers for the voice)
Neusidler 1536a
Neusidler, Hans. Ein Newgeordent Künstlich Lautenbuch (Nuremberg, [Germany]: J. Petreius)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Neusidler 1536b
Neusidler, Hans. Der ander theil des Lautenbuchs (Nuremberg, [Germany]: J. Petreius)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Verdelot 1536
Verdelot, Philippe, and Adrian Willaert. Intavolatura de li madrigali de Verdelotto da cantare et sonare nel lauto, intavolati par Messer Adriano (Venice, [Italy]: Ottavio Scotto)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
RUS-KA Geheimes Staatsarchiv Ms. Et. Min. 126e [1536] [LOST]
[RISM B/VII p. 151; SMT III/2 p. 249]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
US-Wc MT 640 .N3 [1536- ]
(German?) [not in RISM; ms. addition to Neusidler 1536a]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Gerle 1537
Gerle, Hans. Musica Teutsch (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hieronymus Formschneider)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
GB-Evesham, Almonry Museum "Alcetur Bible" [1537-1540]
Alcetur, John. ms. addition to "Matthew" Bible of 1537 (Evesham, Worcestershire, [England])
  • tuning chart for 6-course lute in French tablature
Narváez 1538
Narváez, Luis de. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica (Valladolid, [Spain]: Diego Hernandez de Cordova)
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in Italian tablature (with red numbers for the voice)
PL-WRk Ms. 352 [1538-1544]
(Vienna, Austria) [RISM B/VII p. 370; SMT III/2 p. 232]
  • 6-course lute in German and Italian tablatures
Francesco da Milano 153?
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura da leuto (? [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Neusidler 1540
Neusidler, Hans. Ein newes Lautenbüchlein (Nuremberg, [Germany]: H. Guldenmundt)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Pagano c1540
[anonymous broadside]. Come se ha da accordar il lautto . . . (Venice, [Italy]: Matio Pagano)
  • 6-course lute and voice in standard notation and Italian tablature [one example only]
Verdelot 1540
Verdelot, Philippe, and Adrian Willaert. Intavolatura de li madrigali de Verdelotto da cantare et sonare nel lauto, intavolati par Messer Adriano (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
A-Wn Ms. 960 [c1540]
(Austria?) [RISM B/VII p. 358; SMT III/1 p. 119]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
A-Wn Mus. Ms. 18827 [c1540]
[RISM B/VII p. 355; SMT III/1 p. 133]
  • 6-course lute in Italian and German tablature
D-Lr Ms. Mus. ant. pract. 1196 [1540-1549]
[RISM B/VII p. 197; SMT II p. 199]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 270 [1540-1550]
[RISM B/VII p. 216; SMT II p. 215]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Agricola 1542
Agricola, Martin. Musica instrumentalis deudsch (Wittenberg, [Germany]: Georg Rhaw)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in organ tablature
Luscinius 1542
Luscinius, Ottomar. Musurgia seu praxis musicae (Strasbourg, [France]: Johann Schott) treatise
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Agricola 1543
Agricola, Martin. Quaestiones vulgatiores in musicam, pro magdeburgensis scholae pueris digestae . . . Item de recto testudinis colle ex arte probato, de tonorum formatione, monochordo, ac lectionum accentibus . . . (Magdeburg, [Germany]: Michael Lotter)
  • treatise
Ganassi 1543
Ganassi dal Fontego, Sylvestro di. Lettione seconda. Lettione seconda pur della prattica di sonare il violone d'arco da tasti, composta per Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego desideroso nella pictura, la quale tratta dell'effetto della corda falsa giusta e media et il ponere li tasti con ogni rason e prattica, et ancora lo acordar ditto violone con la diligentia conveniente in diverse maniere et accomode ancora per quelli che sonano la viola senza tasti con una nuova tabulatura di lauto adottata di molti et utilissimi secreti a propositi nell'effetto dil valente di tal strumento e strumenti et ancora il modo di sonare piu parte con il violone unito con la voce. Opera utilissima a chi se diletta de imparare sonare (Venice, [Italy]: Sylvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Neusidler 1544a
Neusidler, Hans. Das Erst Buch. Ein Newes Lautenbüchlein (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hans Günther)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Neusidler 1544b
Neusidler, Hans. Das Ander Buch. Ein New künstlich Lautten Buch (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hans Günther)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Neusidler 1544c
Neusidler, Hans. Das Dritt Buch. Ein New künstlich Lautten Buch (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hans Günther)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
S-Sk Ms. S. 226 [1544-1560]
(Sweden?) [copy of Neusidler?; RISM B/VII p. 325; see Rudén p. 42]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Agricola 1545
Agricola, Martin. Musica instrumentalis deudsch . . . Darzu von dreierley Geigen als welschen, polischen und kleinen Handgeiglein und wie die Griffe drauff auch auff Lauten künstlich abgemessen werden . . . (Wittenberg, [Germany]: Georg Rhaw)
  • treatise
Phalèse 1545
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Des chansons reduictz en tablature de lut (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
F-B 247.975 [1545]
(France?) [ms. addition to Phalèse 1545; RISM B/VII p. 46; SMT I p. 48]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Abondante 1546
Abondante, Julio. Intabolatura de Julio Abondante sopra el lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barberiis 1546a
Barberiis, Melchiore de. Intabulatura di lauto libro quarto (Venice, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barberiis 1546b
Barberiis, Melchiore de. Intabulatura di lautto libro quinto (Venice, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barberiis 1546c
Barberiis, Melchiore de. Intabulatura di lautto libro sesto (Venice, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Bianchini 1546
Bianchini, Dominico. Intabolatura de lauto . . . di ricercari motetti madrigali canzon francese napolitane et balli novamente stampati. Libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1546a
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura de lauto . . . libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1546b
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura de lauto . . . libro segundo (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano and Borrono 1546
Francesco da Milano and Pietro Paolo Borrono. Intabolatura di lauto (Venice, [Italy]: s.n. [Scotto?])
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino 15[4]6
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino. Intabolatura de lauto . . . libro primo (Rome, [Italy]: Valerio Dorico and Lodovico Fratello)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Gerle 1546
Gerle, Hans. Musica und Tabulatur (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hieronymus Formschneider)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Giovanni Maria da Crema 1546a
Giovanni Maria da Crema. Joan Maria intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Giovanni Maria da Crema 1546b
Giovanni Maria da Crema. Intabolatura di lauto (Venice, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Mudarra 1546
Mudarra, Alonso. Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela (Seville, [Spain]: Juan de Leon?)
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
  • 6-course viheula and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
  • 6-course viheula and voice in Italian tablature
  • 4-course guitar in Italian tablature
Phalèse 1546a
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Des chansons reduictz en tablature de luc à trois et quatre parties livre deuxieme (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1546b
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Carminum Quae chely vel testudine (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1546c
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Carminum pro Testudine Liber IIII (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
Pifaro 1546
Pifaro, Marcantonio del. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Rotta 1546a
Rotta, Antonio. Intabolatura de lauto . . . di recercari, motetti, balli, madrigali, canzon francese . . . libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Rotta 1546b
Rotta, Antonio. Intabolatura de lauto . . . di recercari, motetti, balli, madrigali, canzon francese . . . libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Vindella 1546
Vindella, Francesco. Intavolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino 1547
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Gintzler 1547
Gintzler, Simon. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Neusidler 1547
Neusidler, Hans. Das Erst Buch. Ein Newes Lautenbüchlein (Nuremburg, [Germany]: C. Gutknecht)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Phalèse 1547a
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Des chansons reduictz en tabulature de lut à deux, trois, et quatre parties. Avec une briefue & familiaire introduction pour entendre & apprendre par soy mesmes à iouer dudict lut, Livre premier (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1547b
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Carminum quae Chely vel Testudine (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1547c
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher, and Pietro Teghi. Des chansons & motetz reduictz en tabulature . . . Livre troixiesme. Composées par . . . Pierre de Teghi (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1547d
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher, and Pietro Teghi. Carminum ad Testudinis (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1547e
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Des chansons gaillardes, paduanes & motetz . . . livre cinquiesme (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1547f [LOST]
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Carminum pro Testudine (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Valderrábano 1547
Valderrábano, Enriquez de. Libro de musica de vihuela, intitulado silva de sirenas (Madrid, [Spain]: Francisco Fernandez de Cordova)
  • 6-course vihuela, vihuela duet in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and 4-course guitar in Italian tablature
Abondante 1548
Abondante, Julio. Intabolatura di lautto libro secondo (Venice, [Italy]: Hieronimo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Borrono 1548
Borrono, Pietro Paolo. Intavolatura di lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Hieronimo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1548
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura de lautto libro settimo (Venice? [Italy]: Heironimo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano and Borrono 1548
Francesco da Milano and Pietro Paolo Borrono. Intavolatura di lauto . . . libro secondo (Milan, [Italy]: G.A. Castilliono?)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barberiis 1549a
Barberiis, Melchiore de. Intabolatura di lauto libro nono (Venice, [Italy]: Heironimo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barberiis 1549b
Barberiis, Melchiore de. Opera intitolata contina, Intabolatura di lauto . . . libro decimo (Venice, [Italy]: Heironimo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 4-course "chitara" [guitar?] in inverted Italian tablature
Neusidler 1549
Neusidler, Hans. Das Ander Buch. Ein new künstlich Lauten Buch (Nuremburg, [Germany]: J.P. Fabritius)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Phalèse 1549
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Carminum quae chely vel testudine canuntur (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 272 [1549-1560]
(Augsburg? [Germany]) [RISM B/VII p. 217; SMT II p. 217]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Bianchini 154?
Bianchini, Francesco. Tabulature de lutz (Lyon, [France]: Jacques Moderne)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Paladin 154?
Paladin, Jean Paul. Tabulature de lutz (Lyon, [France]: Jacques Moderne)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Baïf c1550? [LOST]
Baïf, Jean-Antoine de. Instruction pour apprendre la tablature de guiterne [cited by Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon (1898-1904)] (Paris? [France]: s.n.)
  • 4-course guittern or guitar treatise
Morlaye 1550 [LOST]
Morlaye, Guillaume. Tabulature de guiterne où sont chansons, gaillardes, pavanes, bransles, allemandes, fantaisies . . . (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature?
Wyssenbach 1550
Wyssenbach, Rudolf, publisher. Tabulaturbüch uff di lutten (Zurich, [Switzerland]: Rudolf Wyssenbach)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
A-LIb Ms. 546 [c1550]
(Germany?) [SMT III/1 p. 97]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CH-SAM Ms. M 2 [c1550]
(South Germany or Austria?) [RISM B/VII p. 317; SMT I p. 33]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-LEm Ms. II.6.7 [c1550]
(Germany?) [ms. addition to Neusidler 1536b; SMT II p. 155]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 266 [1550-1570]
Herwart, Johann Heinrich (Augsburg, Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 214; SMT II p. 203]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 267 [c1550]
(Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 215; SMT II p. 211]
  • 6-course lute in Italian and German tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 268 [c1550]
(Augsburg?, Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 215; SMT II p. 213]
  • 6-course soprano lute in Italian tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 269 [c1550]
(Augsburg?, Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 216; SMT II p. 214]
  • 6-course tenor lute in Italian tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 271 [c1550]
(Augsburg?, Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 217; SMT II p. 216]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 1511b [c1550]
(Venice? Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 219; SMT II p. 221]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 1511d [c1550]
(Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 220; SMT II p. 224]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 1627 [1550-1580]
(Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 223; SMT II p. 229]
  • 6-course lute in Italian and German tablatures
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 2987 [1550-1575]
"Herwart Manuscript" (Augsburg, Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 224; SMT II p. 231]
  • 6-course lute in German, French, and Italian tablatures
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 9516 [1550-1600]
(Haldenwang, Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 225; SMT II p. 237]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
D-Mu 4° Art. 206 [c1550]
(Germany?) [ms. addition to Gerle 1546; SMT II p. 239]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Additional 60577 [c1550]
"Winchester Manuscript" (f. 190) (England) [CRAIG-McFEELY 1992]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
NL-DHnmi Ms.33.C.30 [1550-1560]
(Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 85 (as NL-DHgm)]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
RUS-KA Stadtbibliothek Ms. Gen.2.150 [1550-1552] [LOST]
"Stammbuch des Burggrafen Achatius zu Dohna" [RISM B/VII p. 154; SMT III/2 p. 241]
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
B-Br Ms. Cab. II, 2801 [middle of the 16th century]
(Belgium?) [RISM B/VII p. 59]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Additional 30513 [middle of the 16th century]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 180]
  • 4- and 5-course cittern and gittern in French tablature
  • keybaord in standard notation
GB-Lbl Ms. Royal Appendix 58 [middle of the 16th century]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 188]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
I-VEaf Ms. No. 223 [middle of the 16th century]
"Accademia Filarmonia Ms.223" (Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 340]
  • 6-course lutes and voices in staff notation and Italian tablature
Gorlier 1551
Gorlier, Simon. Le troysieme livre contenant plusieurs duos et trios . . . mis en tabulature de guiterne (Paris, [France]: Robert Gran Jon & Michel Fezandat)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Le Roy 1551a
Le Roy, Adrian. Premier livre de tabulature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Le Roy 1551b
Le Roy, Adrian. Premier livre de tabulature de guiterre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Le Roy 1551c [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Briefve et facile instruction pour apprendre la tabulature la tablature a bien accorder, conduire et disposer la main sur la guiterne (Paris, [France]: Le Roy and Ballard?)
  • 4-course gittern in French tablature?
Le Roy c1551 [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Second livre de guiterre (Paris, [France] Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course guitar in standard notation (and voice?) and French tablature
Dentice 1552
Dentice, Luigi. Duo Dialoghi della Musica . . . delli quali l'uno tratta della theorica, et l'altro della pratica: raccolti da diversi autori greci, et latini (Rome, [Italy]: Matteo Cancer)
  • treatise
Gerle 1552
Gerle, Hans. Eyn Newes sehr Künstlichs Lautenbuch (Nuremberg, [Germany]: Hieronymus Formschneider)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Le Roy 1552a
Le Roy, Adrian. Tiers livre de tabulature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute (and voice?) in standard notation and French tablature
Le Roy 1552b
Le Roy, Adrian. Tiers livre de tabulature de guiterre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Morlaye 1552a
Morlaye, Guillaume. Premier livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Morlaye 1552b
Morlaye, Guillaume. Le Premier livre de chansons . . . (Paris, [France]: Robert GranJon and Michel Fezandat)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Morlaye 1552c
Morlaye, Guillaume. Quatriesme livre contenant plusieurs fantasies (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
Phalèse 1552
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Hortus musarum in quotanquam flosculi (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
Pisador 1552
Pisador, Diego. Libro de musica de vihuela (Salamanca, [Spain]: Guilliermo Millis)
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in Italian tablature (with red numbers for the voice)
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Ripa 1552
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Premier livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Wecker 1552a [LOST]
Wecker, Hans Jacob. Discant Lautenbuch (Basel, [Switzerland]: Ludwig Lück)
  • 6-course lute duet in German tablature
Wecker 1552b
Wecker, Hans Jacob. Tenor Lautenbuch (Basel, [Switzerland]: Ludwig Lück)
  • 6-course lute duet in German tablature
D-B Mus. ms. 40588 [1552]
(Zurich, Switzerland) [RISM B/VII p. 32; SMT II p. 48]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Bakfark 1553
Bakfark, Valentin. Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc Transilvani (Lyon, [France]: Jacques Moderne)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Brayssing 1553
Brayssing, Gregoire. Quart livre de tabulature de guiterre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Dentice 1553
Dentice, Luigi. Duo Dialoghi della Musica . . . delli quali l'uno tratta della theorica, et l'altro della pratica: raccolti da diversi autori greci, et latini (Rome, [Italy]: Vincenzo Luchino)
  • treatise
Morlaye 1553
Morlaye, Guillaume. Le second livre de chansons . . . (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Paladin 1553 [LOST]
Paladin, Jean Paul. Premier livre de tablature de luth (Lyon, [France]: Giovan Pullon de Trino) [reprinted as Paladin 1560]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Phalèse 1553
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Horti musarum secunda pars (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and French tablature
Ripa 1553a
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Premier livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ripa 1553b
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Quart livre de tabulature de luth (Paris, [France]: Le Roy, Adrian, and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Tye 1553a
Tye, Christopher. The Actes of the Apostles, translated into Englyshe metre . . . wyth notes to eche chapter, to synge and also to play upon the lute, very necessarye for studentes after theyr studye, to fyle theyr wyttes, and also for all Christians that cannot synge, to reade the good and Godlye storyes of the lyves of Christ hys Apostles (London, [England]: Wyllyam Seres)
  • lute and/or voice(s) in mensural notation (no tablature)
Tye 1553b
Tye, Christopher. The Actes of the Apostles, translated into Englyshe metre . . . wyth notes to eche chapter, to synge and also to play upon the lute, very necessarye for studentes after theyr studye, to fyle theyr wyttes, and also for all Christians that cannot synge, to reade the good and Godlye storyes of the lyves of Christ hys Apostles (London, [England]: Nycolas Hyll)
  • lute and/or voice(s) in mensural notation (no tablature)
Tye c1553
Tye, Christopher. The Actes of the Apostles, translated into Englyshe metre . . . wyth notes to eche chapter, to synge and also to play upon the lute, very necessarye for studentes after theyr studye, to fyle theyr wyttes, and also for all Christians that cannot synge, to reade the good and Godlye storyes of the lyves of Christ hys Apostles (London, [England]: Wyllyam Seres)
  • lute and/or voice(s) in mensural notation (no tablature)
Balletti 1554
Balletti, Bernardino. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Bianchini 1554
Bianchini, Dominico. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Fuenllana 1554
Fuenllana, Miguel de. Libro de musica para Vihuela intitulado Orphenica lyra (Seville, [Spain]: Martin de Montesdoca)
  • 5- and 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
  • 4-course guitar in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in Italian tablature (with red numbers for the voice)
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Ghelen 1554
Ghelen, Jan van (the younger), publisher. Dit is een zeer schoon Boecxken (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Jan van Ghelen)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Le Roy 1554
Le Roy, Adrian. Cinquiesme livre de guiterre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course guitar (and voice?) in standard notation and French tablature
Morlaye 1554
Morlaye, Guillaume. Premier livre de psalmes (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and French tablature
Ripa 1554a
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Second livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ripa 1554b
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Troisiesme livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ripa 1554c
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Quatriesme livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
E-Mn R/14018 [1554 or after]
(Spain) [ms. addition to Valderrábano 1547; see: Antonio Corona-Alcalde, "A Vihuela Manuscript in the Archivo de Simancas." Lute Society Journal (UK) XXVI, Part 1 (1986): 9]
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
E-Mn R/14630 [1554 or after]
(Spain) [ms. addition to Mudarra 1546; see: Antonio Corona-Alcalde, "A Vihuela Manuscript in the Archivo de Simancas." Lute Society Journal (UK) XXVI, Part 1 (1986): 9]
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
Bermudo 1555
Bermudo, Juan. Comiença el libro llamado declaracion de instumentos musicales (Osuna, [Spain]: Juan de León)
  • treatise
  • 6- and 7-course vihuela and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Ripa 1555
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Cinquiesme livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 1511c [1555-1580]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 220; SMT II p. 223]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
UA-LVu Ms. 1400/I [1555-1580]
"Hans Kernsthok's Lute Book" (Kraków, [Poland]) [RISM B/VII p. 200; SMT III/2 p. 263]
  • 6-course lute in French and Italian tablatures
anonymous 1556
anonymous [Elie Vinet?]. Discours non plus mélancoliques que divers, de choses mesmement qui appartiennent à la fin la manière de bien & justement entoucher les lucs & guiternes (Poitiers, [France]: Enguilbert de Marnef)
  • treatise
Belin 1556
Belin, Julien. Premier livre contenant plusieurs motetz (Paris, [France]: Nicolas du Chemin)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Drusina 1556
Drusina, Benedikt de. Tabulatura continens insignes et selectissimas (Frankfurt, [Germany]: Joan. Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Francesco da Milano 1556
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Heckel 1556a
Heckel, Wolff. Discant Lautten Buch (Strasbourg, [France]: Urban Wyss)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
Heckel 1556b [LOST]
Heckel, Wolff. Tenor Lautten Buch (Strasbourg, [France]: Urban Wyss)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
Le Roy 1556
Le Roy, Adrian. Second livre de guiterre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course guitar (and voice?) in standard notation and French tablature
D-Us Ms. 131b [c1556]
Lautenbuch Ulm (Ulm, [Germany]) [BOETTICHER 1979 p. 199; SMT II p. 295]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Venegas 1557
Venegas de Henestrosa, Luis. Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, harpa y vihuela (Alcalá, [Spain]: Ioan de Brocar)
  • 6-course vihuela in adapted keyboard tablature
Morlaye 1558a
Morlaye, Guillaume. Second livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Morlaye 1558b
Morlaye, Guillaume. Troisiesme livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ochsenkun 1558
Ochsenkun, Sebastian. Tabulaturbuch auff di Lauten (Heidelberg, [Germany]: Johann Kholen)
  • 6-course lute (and voice?) in German tablature
Ripa 1558
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Sixiesme livre de tabulature de leut (Paris, [France]: Michel Fezandat)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Stowe 389 [1558-1560]
"Ralph Bowle's Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 192 (incorrectly as for cittern)]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
Le Roy 1559
Le Roy, Adrian. Sixiesme livre de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Lieto 1559
Lieto Panhormitano, Don Bartholomeo. Dialogo quarto di musica (Naples, [Italy]: M. Cancer)
  • treatise with example in Italian tablature
Matelart 1559
Matelart, Jean. Intavolatura de leuto (Rome, [Italy]: Valerio Dorico)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
Paladin 1560
Paladin, Jean Paul. Premier livre de tablature de luth (Lyon, [France]: Simon Gorlier)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
A-Wn Mus. Ms. 18790 [1560-1565]
"Georg Fugger Lute Book" (Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 353; SMT III/1 p. 130]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
F-Pm Ms. Rés. 44.108 [1560]
(France?) [ms. copy of Le Roy 1551-1554; RISM B/VII p. 278]
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
F-Pn Rés. 429 [c1560]
(Bavaria?) [RISM B/VII p. 269; SMT I p. 71]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
NL-DHnmi Ms. 20.860 [1560-1570]
"Siena Lute Book" (Siena?, [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 84 (as NL-DHgm, Ms.28.B.39)]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in Italian tablature
S-Uu Ms. Vokalmusik i h. 76:b [1560-1580]
Morlaye, Guillaume? (France?) [RISM B/VII p. 335; see Rudén p. 49]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
S-Uu Ms. Vokalmusik i h. 76:c [1560-1580]
Morlaye, Guillaume? (France?) [RISM B/VII p. 336; see Rudén p. 51]
  • 6-course lute in Italian and French tablatures
S-Uu Ms. Instr. musik i h. 412 [1560-1580]
Morlaye, Guillaume? (France?) [RISM B/VII p. 335]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
S-Uu Ms. Vokalmusik i handskrift 87 [1560-1580]
Morlaye, Guillaume? "Codex Carminum Gallicorum" (southern France to Sweden) [RISM B/VII p. 336; see Rudén p. 46]
  • 6-course lute (and voice?) in Italian and French tablature
Francesco da Milano 1561
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Gorzanis 1561
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino 1562
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino. Intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Gorzanis 1562 [LOST]
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Il secondo libro de intabulatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Heckel 1562a
Heckel, Wolff. Discant. Lautten Buch (Strasbourg, [France]: Christian Müller)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
Heckel 1562b
Heckel, Wolff. Tenor. Lautten Buch (Strasbourg, [France]: Christian Müller)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
Le Roy 1562 [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Livre de Tabulature sur le luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature?
Paladin 1562 [LOST]
Paladin, Antoine François. Tablature de Luth (Lyon, [France]: Simon Gorlier)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature?
Ripa 1562a
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Premier livre de tabelature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ripa 1562b
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Second livre de tabelature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ripa 1562c
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Tiers livre de tabelature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Ripa 1562d
Ripa [Rippe], Alberto da. Cinqiesme livre de tabelature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
A-Wn Mus. Ms. 18821 [1562]
Fugger, Octavianus. Bologna, [Italy] and Augsburg, [Germany] [RISM B/VII p. 354; SMT III/1 p. 131]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Abondante 1563
Abondante, Julio. Intabolatura di liuto . . . de ogni sorte de Balli, novamente ristampati, Libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Bianchini 1563
Bianchini, Dominico. La intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Borrono 1563
Borrono, Pietro Paolo. La intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1563a
Francesco da Milano. La intabolatura de lauto . . . libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano 1563b
Francesco da Milano. La intabolatura de lauto . . . libro secondo (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino 1563
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino. La intabolatura de lauto . . . libro terzo (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Galilei 1563
Galilei, Vincenzo. Intavolature de lauto (Rome, [Italy]: Valerio Dorico)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Gorzanis 1563
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Il secondo libro de intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Phalèse 1563
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Theatrum musicum (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
Scotto 1563
Scotto, Girolamo, publisher. La intabolatura de lauto de diversi autori (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Vredeman 1563 [LOST]
Vredeman [Vreedman], Sebastian. Carmina quae cythara pusantur (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature?
Wyssenbach 1563
Wyssenbach, Rudolf. Ein schön Tabulaturbuch auff die Lauten (Zurich, [Switzerland]: Jacob Gessner)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CH-SAM Ms. M 1 [1563]
(Basel, [Switzerland]) [RISM B/VII p. 316; SMT I p. 31]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ant. pract. W.510 [1563-1570]
(Germany?) [ms. copy of Wyssenbach 1563; RISM B/VII p. 40 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 98]
  • 6-course lute in German and French tablatures
Bakfark 1564
Bakfark, Valentin. Premier livre de tabelature de luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Fuenllana 1564? [LOST]
Fuenllana, Miguel de. Libro de música para Vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lira (Madrid, [Spain]: Francisco Sánchez)
  • 5- and 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
  • 4-course guitar in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in Italian tablature (with red numbers for the voice)
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Gorzanis 1564
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Il terzo libro de intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Le Roy 1564
Le Roy, Adrian. Second livre de cistre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
Ochsenkun 1564 [LOST]
Ochsenkun, Sebastian. Tabulaturen auff die Lauten (Heidelberg, [Germany]: Joannem Maier)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Pacoloni 1564
Pacoloni, Giovanni. Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute trio in French tablature
Viaera 1564
Viaera, Frederic. Nova et elegantissima in cythara (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
E-SIM Casa y Sitios Reales, Legajo 394, folio 130, Leaf B [c1564]
([Spain]) [see: Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. "A Vihuela Manuscript in the Archivo de Simancas." Lute Society Journal (UK) XXVI, Part 1 (1986): 3-20]
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian lute tablature
H-Ba K 53/II [1564-1602]
"Kodex Istvánffy" (Vienna, [Austria]) [RISM B/VII p. 374 (as H-Bn); SMT III/2 p. 81]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Alde 1565 [LOST]
Alde, John. The Sequence of lutynge (S.l., [England?]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature?
Bakfark 1565
Bakfark, Valentin. Harmoniarum musicarum (Kraków, [Poland]: Lazarus Andreae)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Gorzanis 1565
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Il secondo libro de intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Le Roy and Ballard 1565
Le Roy, Adrian and Robert Ballard. Breve et facile instruction pour apprendre la tablature (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
Santa María 1565
Santa María, Tomás de. Libro llamado arte de tañer fantasia, assí para tecla come para vihuela, y todo instrumento en que se pudiere tañer a tres, y a quatro vozes y a más (Valladolid, [Spain]: Francisco Fernández de Córdoba)
  • keyboard/(vihuela) treatise (no tablature)
A-Wn Ms. Suppl. Mus. 8967 [1565]
(Germany) [SMT III/1 p. 145]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-B Mus. ms. 40632 [1565-1570]
(South Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 37; SMT II p. 65]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 2986 [c1565]
(Augsburg? Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 223; SMT II p. 231]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
I-CFVd Ms. without Sign. [c1565]
"Catelfranco Manuscript" (works by Giovanni Pacolini, Valentin Bakfark, Francesco da Milano, et al.) (Padua, Italy) [newly discovered ms.; see: Rossi, Franco. Intavolatura manoscritta per liuto del Duomo di Castelfranco Veneto. Bibliotheca musica Bononiensis, Sezione IV, n. 103. (Sala Bolognese: Arnaldo Forni Editore, 2012).]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute duet in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute trio in Italian tablature
PL-Sorau Druck Sign. Nr. 538 [1565-1570] [LOST]
(copy of Morlaye 1554 and Le Roy 1562) [RISM B/VII p. 323]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
US-Ws Ms. V. a. 159 [1565-1595]
"Giles Lodge Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 344]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino 1566: see Francesco da Milano and Perino Fiorentino 15[4]6
M. Neusidler 1566a
Neusidler, Melchior. Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
M. Neusidler 1566b
Neusidler, Melchior. Il secondo libro intabolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Ballard 1567 [LOST]
Ballard, Robert. An Exortation to all Kynde of Men how they shulde learn to play of the lute (Paris? [France]: Robert Ballard)
  • lute treatise
Le Roy 1567 [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Brève et facile instruction pour apprendre la tablature, à bien accorder, conduire et disposer la main sur le Luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • lute treatise
D-Mbs Ms. Mus. 1511a [c1567]
"Libro de intabulatura di liuto . . . Jacomo Gorzanis" (Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 218; SMT II p. 219]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Becchi 1568
Becchi, Antonio di. Libro primo d'intabulatura da leuto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Galilei 1568
Galilei, Vincenzo. Fronimo dialogo (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute treatise in Italian tablature with some staff notation
Ghelen 1568
Ghelen, Jan van (the younger), publisher. Dit is een zeer schoon Boecxken . . . (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Jan van Ghelen)
  • treatise
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Le Roy 1568
Le Roy, Adrian. A Briefe and easye instru[c]tion to learne the tableture (London, [England]: John Kyngston for James Roubothum [Rowbotham] )
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Phalèse 1568
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Luculentum theatrum musicum (Louvain, [Belgium]: Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
Vredeman 1568
Vredeman [Vreedman], Sebastian. Nova longeque elegantissima cithara ludenda carmina, cum gallica tum etiam germanica: fantasiae item passomezi, gailliarde, branles, almandes etc., nunc primum ex musica in usum citharae traducta (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
A-Wn S.A. 76.A.2 [1568- ]
(Belgium?) [ms. addition to Phalèse 1568; SMT III/1 p. 145]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Bakfark 1569
Bakfark, Valentin. Harmoniarum musicarum (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Joannis Latii)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barbetta 1569
Barbetta, Giulio Cesare. Il libro primo dell'intavolatura de liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Galilei 1569
Galilei, Vincenzo. La seconda parte del dialogo (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Kargel 1569a [LOST]
Kargel, Sixt. Carmina Italica, Gallica & Germanica ludenda cythara (S.l.: s.n.)
  • cittern?
Kargel 1569b [LOST]
Kargel, Sixt. Nova & elegantiss. Italica & Gallica carmina pro testudine (S.l.: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute?
Kargel 1569c [LOST]
Kargel, Sixt. Renovata cythara (Mainz, [Germany]: s.n.)
  • cittern?
Rowbotham c1569
Rowbotham, James, publisher. The breffe and playne instruction to lerne to play on the gyttron and also the Cetterne (London, [England]: James Rowbotham) [4-page fragment at US-PHu]
  • 4-course gittern and cittern in French tablature?
Vredeman 1569
Vredeman [Vreedman], Sebastian. Carminum quae cythara pulsantur liber secundus: in quo selectissima quaeque et iucunda carmina continentur: ut passomezzi, gailliardes, branles, alemande & alia . . . nunc primum summa qua fieri potuit facilitate in tyronum usum (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
D-LEm Ms. II.2.45 [1569-1593]
[ms. additions to Ochsenkun 1558; RISM B/VII p. 163; SMT II p. 153]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Gorlier 156?a [LOST]
Gorlier, Simon. Livre de Tabulature de Cistre (Lyon, [France]: Simon Gorlier)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature?
Gorlier 156?b [LOST]
Gorlier, Simon. Livre de Tabulature de Guiterne (Lyon, [France]: Simon Gorlier)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature?
Gorzanis 156?
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Opera nova de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Alessandro Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Le Roy 156? [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Troisième livre de cistre (Paris? [France]: Adrian LeRoy?)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
Antonelli 1570
Antonelli, Cornelio. Il turturino il primo libro delle napolitane ariose (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Gorzanis 1570
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Il primo libro di napolitane (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Le Roy 1570? [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Instruction de partir toute musique (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • lute treatise
Phalèse and Bellère 1570a
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Hortulus cytharae (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
Phalèse and Bellère 1570b
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Selectissima elegantissimaque, gallica, italica et latina in guiterna ludenda carmina (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
A-Wn Mus. Ms. 19259 [1570-1580?]
(Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 355; SMT III/1 p. 135]
  • 6-course lute in French and German tablatures
B-Bc MS LIt. XY no. 24135 [1570-1580 (tablature section)]
(Italy?) [BOETTICHER 1979 p. 203; see TYLER p. 31]
  • 4-course guitar in Italian tablature
I-Fn Ms. Landau-Finaly Mus. 2 [1570-1575]
"Fronimo Autograph" (Venice, [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 115]
  • 6-course lute treatise in Italian tablature with some staff notation
I-Lg Ms. 774 [1570-1580]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 195]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in Italian tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40598 [1570-1583]
(Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 34 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 136]
  • 6- and 7-course lute, lute duet in German tablature
US-Cn Case MS VM.1734.5.G.37 [1570-1585]
(Silesia?) [RISM B/VII p. 81]
  • 6-course cittern in French tablature
Fiorino 1571
Fiorino, Gasparo. La nobiltà di roma (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with parallel version in staff notation
Le Roy 1571
Le Roy, Adrian. Livre d'airs de cour miz sur le luth (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • 6-course lute (and voice?) in standard notation and French tablature
Phalèse and Bellère 1571
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Theatrum musicum (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
Jobin 1572
Jobin, Bernhard, publisher. Das Erste Büch (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Fiorino 1573
Fiorino, Gasparo. La nobilta di roma (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with parallel version in staff notation
Jobin 1573
Jobin, Bernhard, publisher. Das Ander Buch (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
M. Neusidler 1573
Neusidler, Melchior. Tabulatura continens praestantissimas et selectissimas . . . (Frankfurt, [Germany]: Johannes Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Phalèse and Bellère 1573a [LOST]
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Selectissima carmina ludenda in Quinterna (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature?
Phalèse and Bellère 1573b
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Selectissimorum testudine carminum liber (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
Phalèse and Bellère 1573c [LOST]
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Thesaurus musicus (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Teghi 1573
Teghi, Pierre de. Cantionum gallicarum, et motettarum liber (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Waissel 1573
Waissel, Matthäus. Tabulatura continens insignes et selectissimas quasque cantiones, quatuor, quinque, et sex vocum, testudini aptatas, ut sunt: praeambula: phantasiae; cantiones germanicae, italica, gallicae, & latinae: passemesei: gagliarde: & choreae (Frankfurt an der Oder, [Germany]: Johan Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
H-Bn Hs. Anhang Mus. pr. 19 [1573-]
(Germany) [ms. addition to Waissel 1573; RISM B/VII p. 374; BOETTICHER 1979 p. 201]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Kargel 1574
Kargel, Sixt. Novae, elegantissimae, gallicae item et italica cantilenae (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Le Roy 1574
Le Roy, Adrian. A briefe and plaine Instruction to set all Musicke . . . for the Lute (London, [England]: James Rowbothome)
  • 6-course lute treatise in French tablature with staff notation
Metzler 1574 [LOST]
Metzler, Barthel. Galliarden (S.l.: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature?
M. Neusidler 1574
Neusidler, Melchior. Teutsch Lautenbuch (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Phalèse and Bellère 1574
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Thesaurus musicus (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Virchi 1574
Virchi, Paolo. Il primo libro di tabolatura di citthara (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6- and 7-course cittern in Italian tablature
I-MOe Ms. C 311 [1574]
"Bottegari MS" (Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 212]
  • 6-course lute (viola da mano) in Italian tablature
anonymous 1575 [LOST]
[anonymous]. Jardinet de cistre (Paris, [France]: s.n.)
  • cittern
Kargel 1575 [LOST]
Kargel, Sixt. Renovata Cythara (S.l.: s.n.)
  • cittern
Kargel and Lais 1575
Kargel, Sixt, and Johan Dominico Lais. Toppel Cythar (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course cittern in Italian tablature
Phalèse 1575 [LOST]
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Hortulus cytharae (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • cittern
Phalèse and Bellère 1575 [LOST]
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Des chansons réduitz en tabulature de lut (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Strambi c1575
Strambi, Antonio [printer]. Regole per accordare il liuto . . . (Rome, [Italy]: Antonio Strambi)
  • lute treatise [woodcut; 1 folio only]
Viola 1575 [LOST]
Viola, Raphael. Raphaelis Violae Carminum pro Testudine liber (Louvain, [Belgium]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature?
CH-Bu Ms. F.IX.23 [1575]
Iselin, Ludwig. (Basel, Switzerland) [RISM B/VII p. 12; SMT I p. 6]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CH-Bu Ms. F.IX.39 [1575]
(Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 12; SMT I p. 8]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CH-Bu Ms. F.X.11 [1575]
Iselin, Ludwig. (Basel, Switzerland) [RISM B/VII p. 14; SMT I p. 28]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CZ-Bsa Ms. G 10,1400 [c1575]
(Mikulov, Czech Republic) [RISM B/VII p. 209; SMT III/2 p. 11]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
  • cittern in French tablature
D-W Druck 5 (2). Mus. fol. (suppl. ms.) [c1575]
(Germany) [ms. addition to Ochsenkun 1558; RISM B/VII p. 364; SMT II p. 317]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
I-Fc Sig. F. III. 10431 [1575]
"Fronimo Autograph" (Venice, [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 124]
  • 6-course lute treatise in Italian tablature with some staff notation
US-NHub Music Ms. 13 [1575-1580]
"Osborn Commonplace Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 234]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
US-NH Rare Ma 21, W632 [1575-1595]
"Wickhambrook Manuscript" [RISM B/VII p. 235]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Daza 1576
Daza, Esteban. Libro de musica en cifras para Vihuela, intitulado el Parnasso (S.l., [Spain]: s.n.)
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
  • 6-course vihuela and voice in Italian tablature with ciphers
M. Neusidler 1576 [LOST]
Neusidler, Melchior. Il primo libro intabulatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Brunet 1578 [LOST]
Brunet, Pierre. Tablature de Mandorre (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • mandore
Cabezón 1578
Cabezón, Antonio de. Obras de mú[sic]a para tecla, arpa [y] vihuela, de Antonio de Cabeçon . . . recopiladas y puestas en cifra por Hernando de Cabeçon su hijo (Madrid, [Spain]: Francisco Sanchez)
  • keyboard/(vihuela) treatise (no vihuela tablature)
Kargel 1578
Kargel, Sixt. Renovata cythara (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 4-course cittern in French number tablature
Kargel and Lais 1578
Kargel, Sixt, and Johan Dominico Lais. Toppel Cythar (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course cittern in Italian tablature
Le Roy 1578 [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Briefve & facile instruction . . . sur la Guiterne (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • guitar treatise
Phalèse 1578 [LOST]
Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Carmina in Testudine (Louvain, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature?
D-KNs Ms. without Sign. [1578]
(Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 150 (as H M 97/50); SMT II p. 145]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Gorzanis 1579
Gorzanis, Giacomo de. Opera nova de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Alessandro Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Tromboncino 157? [LOST]
Tromboncino, Ippolito. Intabolatura . . . da cantar in liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature?
Kargel 1580
Kargel, Sixt. Renovata cythara (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
Viola 1580 [LOST]
Viola, [Raphael]. Lautenbuch (Louvain, [Belgium]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute?
D-B Mus. ant. pract. O.60 [1580] [LOST]
(ms. copy of Ochsenkun 1562) [RISM B/VII p. 39]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
D-DEl Ms. BB 12150 [1580]
Agricola, Philippus. "Philippus Agricola Lute Book" (Tübingen, Germany) [SMT II p. 77]
  • 7-course lute in German tablature
D-KA G I 4 [1580-1595]
Fabrum, Hieronymus, and/or Johann Georg Brengger/Brencker. "Donaueschingen MS" (Bavaria?) [SMT II p. 80 (as D-DO)]
  • 6-, 7- and 8-course lute in German tablature
D-LE Antiquariat C.G. Boerner Ms. Katalog 27, Seite 29 [1580] [LOST]
(ms. copy of Jobin 1572, 1573) [RISM B/VII p. 170]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
E-SIM Casa y Sitios Reales, Legajo 394, folio 130, Leaf A [after 1580]
([Spain]) [see: Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. "A Vihuela Manuscript in the Archivo de Simancas." Lute Society Journal (UK) XXVI, Part 1 (1986): 3-20]
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian lute tablature
F-Pn Rés. 1109 [c1580]
(France?) [ms. addition to Aristotle's De moribus, quae etica (Paris, 1576); RISM B/VII p. 271; SMT I p. 89]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
  • 4-course guitar in French tablature
F-Pn Rés. Vmb. 65 [1580]
(Germany?) [ms. addition to Kargel 1574; SMT I p. 99]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in German tablature
GB-Lcm Ms. 2089 [1580-1590]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 194]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Och Mus. 1280 [1580]
(England) [3 fragments from book bindings; CRAIG-McFEELY 1993]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Y MS M 91 (S) [c1580]
(England) [contains one partial lute intabulation; see Goodwin, Christopher. "Some Recent Discoveries in Elizabethan Song." Lute Society Journal (UK) XL (2000): 32-50.
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • keyboad and/or voices in standard notation
I-Gu Ms. F.VII.1 [1580-1595]
(Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 125]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
IRL-Dm Ms. Z. 3.2.13 [1580-1600]
"Marsh Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 97]
  • 6- and 7-course lute, lute duet in French tablature
  • bandora in French tablature
NL-At Ms. 208. A. 27 [1580]
(Germany?) [RISM B/VII p. 6]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ant. pract. J.150 [c1580]
(ms. addition to Jobin 1572) (Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 39 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 98]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40032 [c1580-1626?]
"Naples Lute Book" or "Barbarino MS" (Naples?, Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 22 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 102]
  • 7-course lute and/or vihuela in Italian tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40161 [c1580]
(Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 29 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 132]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40583 [1580-1585]
(Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 32 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 133]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in German tablature
Caroso 1581
Caroso, Fabritio. Il Ballarino . . . diviso in due trattati . . . ornato di molte figure, et con l'intavolatura di liuto . . . & il soprano della musica nella sonata di ciascun ballo (Venice, [Italy]: Francesco Ziletti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute (and melody instrument?) in standard notation and Italian tablature
Barbetta 1582a
Barbetta, Giulio Cesare. Novae tabulae musicae testudinariae hexachordae et heptachordae (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Barbetta 1582b
Barbetta, Giulio Cesare. Il terctio libro de intavolatura de liuto (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Brambilla 1582 [LOST]
Brambilla, Ambrosius. Anleitung die Zither zu spielen (S.l.: s.n.)
  • cittern treatise
Phalèse and Bellère 1582
Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Hortulus citharae (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • cittern in French tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Magliabechiano, XIX, codice 168 [1582-1585]
(Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 113]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in Italian tablature with text only
Le Roy 1583 [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. Instruction de partir toute musique . . . (Paris, [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
  • lute treatise
F-Pn Ms. Français 9152 [1583-1587]
Cellier, Jacques. (France) [SMT I p. 154]
  • 7-course lute in French tablature
IRL-Dtc Ms. 410/1 [olim D. 3.30] [1583-1590]
"Dallis lute-book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 96]
  • 6-course lute, lute duet, lute quartet in French tablature
  • 6-course bandora in French tablature
  • cittern in French tablature
US-OAm Ms. Parton [1583-1590]
"Walsingham Consort Books" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 249]
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature [N.B.: accompanying parts for flute, treble viol and bass viol are located in GB-Beverley (Yorkshire), East Riding Record Office, MSS DD.HO.20/1-3]
Adriaenssen 1584
Adriaenssen [Adriansen], Emanuel. Pratum musicum (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet, lute trio, lute quartet in French tablature
  • 6-course lute(s) and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
Fallamero 1584
Fallamero, Gabriel. Il primo libro de intavolatura da liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
Galilei 1584
Galilei, Vincenzo. Fronimo dialogo (Venice, [Italy]: Girolamo Scotto)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute in staff notation
Krengel 1584
Krengel, Gregorius. Tabulatura nova (Frankfurt, [Germany]: Andrea Eichorn)
  • 7-course lute duet in German tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Antonio di Galileo 6 [1584-1587]
"Galilei ms" (ms. copy of Galilei 1584) (Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 114]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
I-SGc Fondo San Martino Ms. 31 [1584-1590]
(Tuscany, Italy) [COELHO p. 169]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in Italian tablature and staff notation
Barbetta 1585
Barbetta, Giulio Cesare. Intavolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
Carrara 1585
Carrara, Michele. Regola ferma e vera per l'intavolatura di liuto (Rome, [Italy]: E. Roberti)
  • 8-course lute treatise in Italian, Neapolitan, and French tablatures
Le Roy 1585 [LOST]
Le Roy, Adrian. L'instruction pour la mandorre (Paris? [France]: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard?)
  • 4-string mandore
D-LEm Ms. I.II.104 [1585-1600]
(Italy?) [ms. additions to Galilei 1584; SMT II p. 153]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
GB-Cu Ms. Additional 2764 (2) [1585-1590]
(England) [binding fragments; RISM B/VII p. 77]
  • 6-course lute or bandora in French tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Additional 31992 [1585-1590]
"Paston MS" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 183]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
GB-NO Ms. Mi LM 16 [1585-1595]
"Francis Willoughby's Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 243]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 4-course cittern in French tablature
I-Bu MS 177/IV [1585-1600]
(Naples?, Italy) [TYLER p. 39]
  • 5-course guitar and voice in alfabeto tablature and staff notation
[Amat 1586]
Amat, Juan Carlos. Guitarra Española de cinco ordenes . . . (Barcelona, [Spain]: s.n.)
  • guitar treatise
Francesco da Milano 1586 [LOST]
Francesco da Milano. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice? [Italy]: Antonio Gardane)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
Kargel 1586
Kargel, Sixt. Lautenbuch, viler Newerlessner fleissiger . . . (Strasbourg, [France]: Bernhard Jobin)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Verovio 1586
Verovio, Simone. Diletto spirituale canzonette (Rome, [Italy]: Martin van Buyten)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with versions for staff notation and keyboard score
F-VAL Ms. 429 [1586-1602]
"de Croy MS" (France) [RISM B/VII p. 337; SMT I p. 160]
  • 7-course lute in French tablature
  • 7-course lute and voice in French tablature and standard notation
Abondante 1587
Abondante, Julio. Il quinto libro de tabolatura da liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
M. Neusidler 1587 [LOST]
Neusidler, Melchior. Six motets a6 by Josquin des Prez . . . (Venice, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
Pacoloni 1587 [LOST]
Pacoloni, Giovanni. Tabulatura tribus testudinibus (Milan, [Italy]: Simon Tini)
  • 6-course lute trio in Italian tablature?
Munday 1588
Munday, Anthony. A banquet of daintie conceits. Furnished with verie delicate and choyse inuentions, to delight their mindes, who take pleasure in musique, and there-withall to sing sweete ditties, either to the lute, bandora, virginalles, or anie other instrument (London, [England]: Edward White)
  • lute or bandora without notation [lyrics only]
Gintzler 1589
Gintzler, Simon. Intabolatura de lauto (Venice, [Italy]: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Verovio 1589
Verovio, Simone. Ghirlanda di fioretti musicali (Rome, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with versions for staff notation and keyboard score
CZ-JIa Zachariaš of Hradec MS [c1589] [LOST]
(Hradec? [Czech Republic]) [from the library of Zachariaš of Hradec, donated to CZ-Jia in 1589, now LOST]
  • lute in unknown tablature type
Abondante 158? [LOST]
Abondante, Julio. Intavolatura di liuto del Pestrin lib. 7 (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
Giuliani 158? [LOST]
Giuliani, [Girolamo]. Intavolatura de chitara (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • guitar
Vecchi 1590
Vecchi, Orazio. Selva di varia ricreatione (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and instrumental ensemble in staff notation and Italian tablature
Verovio 1590 [LOST]
Verovio, Simone. Diletto spirituale canzonette (Rome, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with versions for staff notation and keyboard score
A-Wwilczek Ms. without Sign. [1590-1600] [LOST]
[RISM B/VII p. 360; SMT III/1 p. 146]
  • lute in Italian and German tablatures
B-Br Ms. Cab. II, 275 [1590-early 17th century]
Cavalcanti, Raffaelo. "Raffaelo Cavalcanti MS" (Florence, Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 57]
  • 7-course lute, lute duet in Italian tablature
  • 7-course lute and voice in Italian tablature
D-Z Ms. CXV, 3 [1590-1600]
Arpin, Jan. (Dornsdorf, [Czech Republic]) [RISM B/VII p. 373; SMT II p. 318]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in German tablature
F-Pn Rés. Vmf. 50 [1590-1610]
(Tuscany? [Italy]) [SMT I p. 129; COELHO p. 128; TYLER p. 90]
  • 8-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 5-course guitar in alfabeto tablature
  • 5-course guitar and voice in alfabeto tablature and standard notation
GB-Cu Ms. Additional 8844 [1590-1600]
"Trumbull Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 298 olim GB-Rro Ms. Trumbull Addition Ms. 6 (incorrectly listed in RISM as "Turnbull")]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Eu Ms. Dc.5.125 [1590-1605]
"Thisstllethwaite Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 105]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-HAdolmetsch Ms. II.C.23 [1590-1600 (6c lute music), c1620 (7c lute music), 1640 (guitar music)]
"'Medici' Lute Book" (Tuscany? [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 133; COELHO p. 167]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice in Italian tablature
  • 5-course guitar in mixed tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Additional 41498 [1590]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 186]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
GB-Ob Ms. 340 [1590-1600]
[RISM B/VII p. 330 (as GB-T)]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
GB-Ob Ms. Top. gen. c. 90 [c1590]
"James Strangman fragment" (England) [see: Michael Gale, "Two Newly Discovered English Lute Tablature Fragments." Lute Society Journal (UK) XLVIII (2008): 54-70.]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Magliabechiano, XIX, codice 31 [1590-1600]
(Florence, [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 109; COELHO p. 75]
  • 7-course lute in Italian tablature
I-Ra Ms. Mus. 1608 [1590-1615]
(Rome, [Italy]) [COELHO p. 140]
  • 7-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 7-course lute and voice in Italian tablature and staff notation
  • fragments for 9-course lute and voice in Italian tablature and staff notation
I-Tn Riserva musica IV, 43/2 [1590-1605]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 332]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
IRL-Dtc Ms. 408/1 [olim D. 1.21] [1590-1610]
"William Ballet lute-book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 96]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • viol in French tablature
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40163 [1590-1620]
(Naples, Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 29 (D-B); TYLER p. 85]
  • 5-course guitar and voice in alfabeto tablature and staff notation
PL-Tm Ms. J 4° 342 - 102682 [1590]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 333]
  • 4-course cittern in Italian tablature
Pacoloni 1591 [LOST]
Pacoloni, Giovanni. Tabulatura tribus testudinibus (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute trio in French tablature?
Verovio 1591
Verovio, Simone. Canzonette a quattro voci (Rome, [Italy]: Simone Verovio)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with versions for staff notation and keyboard score
Vicentino 1591 [LOST]
Vicentino, Ieronimo Celidono. Intabolatura di liuto di Ieronimo Celidono Vicentino sopra tutti li madrig: de Cipriano Rore a.4 (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardane) [some pieces may have been copied into D-KA G I 4; see: Ness, Arthur J. "Briefly Noted: A Physician's Lute Book." Journal of the Lute Society of America XL (2007): 84-86.]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
Vincenti 1591a
Vincenti, Giacomo, publisher. Canzonette per cantar et sonar di liuto a tre voci . . . libro primo (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with vocal models in staff notation
Vincenti 1591b
Vincenti, Giacomo, publisher. Canzonette per cantar et sonar di liuto a tre voci . . . libro secondo (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with vocal models in staff notation
Vincenti 1591c
Vincenti, Giacomo, publisher. Canzonette per cantar et sonar di liuto a tre voci . . . libro terzo (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with vocal models in staff notation
Waissel 1591
Waissel, Matthäus. Tabulatura Allerley künstlicher Preambulen, auserlesener Deudtscher und Polnischer Tentze, Passemezen, Gailliarden, Padoanen, Pavanen und Branlen: Auff der Lauten zu schlagen gantz fleissig zugerichtet (Frankfurt an der Oder, [Germany]: Andreas Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
CH-Bu Ms. F.IX.70 [1591 and 1594?]
"Lautten Stückh ettlicher feiner Preamblenn, Muttetenn, Fantasienn . . ." (Basel, Switzerland) [SMT I p. 11]
  • 9-course lute in German tablature
Adriansen 1592a [LOST]
Adriansen [Adriansen], Emanuel. Pratum musicum longe amoenissimum (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet, lute trio, lute quartet in French tablature
  • 6-course lute(s) and voice in staff notation and French tablature
Adriansen 1592b
Adriansen [Adriansen], Emanuel. Novum pratum musicum longe amoenissimum cuius spatiossissimo eoque jucundissimo ambitu . . . (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 6-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
Bellasio 1592
Bellasio, Paolo. Villanelle a tre voci, con la intavolature del liuto, novamente composte & date in luce (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
  • 6-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and Italian tablature
Bellère 1592 [LOST]
Bellère, Jean, publisher. Le jardinet du cistre vulgaire (Antwerp, [Belgium]: Jean Bellère)
  • cittern
Giovanelli 1592 [LOST]
Giovanelli, Ruggiero. Canzon Giovanelli intavolate per liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
  • 6-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and Italian tablature
Radino 1592
Radino, Giovanni Maria. Intavolatura di balli per sonar di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Verovio 1592
Verovio, Simone. Diletto spirituale canzonette (Rome, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with versions for staff notation and keyboard score
Waissel 1592a
Waissel, Matthäus. Lautenbuch Darinn von der Tabulatur und Application der Lauten gründlicher und voller Unterricht: Sampt ausserlesenen Deudtschen und Polnischen Tentzen, Passamezen, Gaillarden . . . Auff der Lauten zu schlagen gantz fleissig zugerichtet (Frankfurt an der Oder, [Germany]: Andreas Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Waissel 1592b [LOST]
Waissel, Matthäus. Tabulatura Allerley künstlicher Preambulen, auserlesener Deudtscher und Polnischer Tentze, Passemezen, Gailliarden, Padoanen, Pavanen und Branlen: Auff der Lauten zu schlagen gantz fleissig zugerichtet (Frankfurt, [Germany]: Andreas Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
Waissel 1592c
Waissel, Matthäus. Tabulatura Guter gemeiner Deudtscher Tentze Nicht allein auff einer Lauten in sonderheit Sondern auch auff zweyen Lauten durch Quarten zusamen zuschlagen (Frankfurt an der Oder, [Germany]: Andreas Eichorn)
  • 6-course lute duet in German tablature
D-Dl Ms. Mus. J.307 [1592-1605] [LOST]
[RISM B/VII p. 94]
  • 6-course cittern in French tablature
Barley 1593 [LOST]
Barley, William, publisher. A new booke of citterne lessons (London? [England]: William Barley)
  • cittern treatise
Danter 1593? [LOST]
Danter, J. A Moste Perfect and True Instruction (London, [England]: s.n.)
  • cittern treatise
Terzi 1593
Terzi, Giovanni Antonio. Intavolatura di liutto (Venice, [Italy]: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
E-Mn Ms. 6001 [1593]
"Ramillete de Flores Manuscript." (Spain) [Tyler 1980, p. 143]
  • 6-course vihuela in Italian tablature
Carrara 1594
Carrara, Michele. In questa carta s'insegna il vero et sicuro modo . . . (S.l., [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 8-course lute treatise in Italian, Neapolitan, and French tablatures
Denss 1594
Denss, Adrian. Florilegium omnis fere generis cantionum . . . (Cologne? [Germany]: Gerardus Grevenbruch)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and French tablature
Gastoldi 1594
Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Balletti a tre voci con la intavolatura del liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 6-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and Italian tablature
Piccinini 1594 [LOST]
Piccinini, Alessandro. Trattato sopra la tabulatura (Bologna, [Italy]: s.n.)
  • lute treatise
PL-Kj Mus. ms. 40143 [1594-1603]
Besard, Jean-Baptiste, et al. (Cologne, [Germany]) [RISM B/VII p. 25 (D-B); SMT III/2 p. 112]
  • 6-, 7-, and 8-course lute in French tablature
M. Neusidler 1595 [LOST]
Neusidler, Melchior. Il primo libro intabulatura di liuto (S.l., [Italy]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
Vecchi 1595
Vecchi, Orazio. Selva di varia ricreatione (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
  • 6-course lute and instrumental ensemble in staff notation and Italian tablature
Verovio 1595
Verovio, Simone. Lodi della musica a 3 voci (Rome, [Italy]: Simone Verovio)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature with versions for staff notation and keyboard score
CDN-Mc Ms. without shelfmark [1595-1610]
Vecchi, Orazio, et al. "Intavolatura di liuto" (Bergamo?, Italy) [COELHO p. 104]
  • 8-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 8-course lute duet in Italian tablature
  • 8-course lute and voice in Italian tablature and staff notation
GB-AB Ms. 27 [1595-1600]
"Brogyntyn MS" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 3]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • lute duet in French tablature
  • lute trio in French tablature
  • lute and voice in standard notation and French tablature (mostly lack vocal parts)
GB-Cu Ms. Dd.2.11 [1595-1600]
Holmes, Mathew. (England) [RISM B/VII p. 72]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
  • 6-course bandora in French tablature
GB-Cu Ms. Dd.3.18 [1595]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 73; cittern part book: GB-Cu Ms. Dd.14.24]
  • 6-course lute duet in French tablature
  • 6-course lute in French tablature (part book for a broken consort)
  • orpharion(s) in French tablature
  • [note: pieces for consort lack complete set of part books]
GB-Lbl Ms. Collection Hirsch M 1353 [1595-1600]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 192]
  • 6- and 7-course lute and lute duet in French tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Magliabechiano, XIX, codice 30 [1595-1625]
(Florence, [Italy]) [RISM B/VII p. 108; COELHO p. 73]
  • 7-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 7-course lute and voice in Italian tablature and staff notation
NL-Lu Ms. Thysius 1666 [1595-1620]
Smout, Adriaan Joriszoon [collector/copyist]. "Thysius MS" (Leiden, [Netherlands]) [RISM B/VII p. 161]
  • 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-course lute in French tablature
  • lute quartet in French tablature
US-Ws Ms. V. b. 280 [1595-1610]
"Dowland Lute Book" (England) [RISM B/VII p. 345]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in French tablature
Amat 1596 [LOST]
Amat, Juan Carlos. Guitarra Española de cinco ordenes . . . (Barcelona, [Spain]: s.n.)
  • guitar treatise
Barley 1596a
Barley, William, publisher. A new booke of tabliture, containing sundrie easie and familiar instructions shewing howe to attaine to the knowledge, to guide and dispose thy hand to play on sundry instruments, as the lute, orpharion, and bandora . . . (London, [England]: William Barley)
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
Barley 1596b
Barley, William, publisher. A new booke of tabliture for the orpharion (London, [England]: William Barley)
  • 7-course orpharion in French tablature
Barley 1596c
Barley, William, publisher. A new booke of tabliture for the bandora (London, [England]: William Barley)
  • 7-course bandora in French tablature
M. Neusidler 1596 [LOST]
Neusidler, Melchior. Melchioris Neusidleri Teutsch Lautenbuch (Strasbourg, [France]: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
Orologio 1596
Orologio, Alessandro. Canzonette a tre voci . . . intavolate per sonar di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course? lute and voices in Italian tablature and staff notation
D-KA Mus. Bd. A.678 [1596-1605]
(ms. copy of Ochsenkun 1558 and Jobin 1572/1573) (Germany) [RISM B/VII p. 136; SMT II p. 132]
  • 7-, 8- and 9-course lute in German tablature
Dowland 1597
Dowland, John. The first booke of songes or ayres of foure partes with tablature for the lute: so made that all the partes together, or either of them severally may be song to the lute, orpherian or viol de gambo . . . (London, [England]: Peter Short)
  • 8-course lute or orpharion and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
  • one lute with two players in French tablature
Holborne 1597
Holborne, Antony. The cittharn schoole (London, [England]: Peter Short)
  • cittern in French tablature
Morley 1597
Morley, Thomas. Canzonets or little short aers to five and sixe voices (London, [England]: Peter Short)
  • 8-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
Vecchi 1597
Vecchi, Orazio. Canzonette a tre voci di Horatio Vecchi, et di Gemignano Capi Lupi da Modena (Venice, [Italy]: Angelo Gardano)
  • 6-course lute and voice in staff notation and Italian tablature
GB-Lam MS 601 [1597-1600]
"Richard Mynshall lute-book" (England) [formerly in the collection of Robert Spencer; RISM B/VII p. 171]
  • 6-course lute in French tablature
PL-Elblag Biblioteka Publiczna Ms. without Sign. [1597-1609] [LOST]
"Hans von Bodeck Stammbücher" [lost during World War II?]
  • travel diary with some musical notation: lute in French tablature?
Cavendish 1598
Cavendish, Michael. 14 ayres in tabletorie to the lute expressed with two voyces and the base violl or the voice & lute only. 6. more to 4. voyces and in tabletorie, And 8. madrigalles to 5. voyces (London, [England]: Peter Short)
  • 8-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
Gastoldi 1598
Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Balletti a tre voci con la intavolatura del liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 6-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and Italian tablature
Reymann 1598
Reymann, Matthaeus. Noctes musicae (Heidelberg, [Germany]: Vögelin)
  • 7- and 8-course lute in French tablature
F-VE Ms. 698 [c1598]
(Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 342; SMT I p. 162]
  • 7-course lute in Italian and French tablatures
F-VE Ms. 711 [c1598] [LOST]
(Germany) [lost since 1945; survives only in MS notes by M. Brenet in F-Pn Ms. nouv. acq. fr. 1141; RISM B/VII p. 343; SMT I p. 166]
  • 7-course lute in French tablature and inverted Italian tablatures
Allison 1599
Allison, Richard. The psalmes of David in meter (London, [England]: William Barley)
  • 6-course lute and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
  • 4-course cittern and voice(s) in staff notation and French tablature
Molinaro 1599
Molinaro, Simone. Intavolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 6-, 7- and 8-course lute in Italian tablature
Morley 1599
Morley, Thomas. The first booke of consort lessons (London, [England]: William Barley)
  • 8-course lute, bass viol, flute, treble viol, pandora, and cittern in staff notation and French tablature
Terzi 1599
Terzi, Giovanni Antonio. Il secondo libro de intavolatura di liuto (Venice, [Italy]: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • 6-course lute, lute duet, lute quartet in Italian tablature
  • bass lute in Italian tablature
V-CVbav Chigi L. VI. 200 [1599]
Duchessa di Traetta. "Libro de cartas y romances españoles del illustrisima Duchessa de Traetta mi señora que Dios guarde mil años" (Naples?, [Italy]) [YAKELEY p. 285; TYLER p. 95 (as I-Rvat)]
  • 5-course guitar and voice (text only) with alfabeto
Marenzio 159? [LOST]
Marenzio, Luca. Villanelle a 3, para tanger no laude (S.l.: s.n.)
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature?
D-B Antiquariat Leo Liepmannssohn Ms. Katalog 223, Nr. 67 [end of the 16th century] [LOST]
[RISM B/VII p. 42]
  • lute in German tablature
D-Dl Ms. J. 307m [end of the 16th century]
[RISM B/VII p. 94]
  • 6-course cittern in French tablature
D-KNh R 242 [end of the 16th century/beginning of the 17th century]
"Elysabeth Romer's lutebook" (Germany) [SMT II p. 145]
  • 6- and 7-course lute in French tablature
F-LYm Ms. 6244 [end of the 16th century/beginning of the 17th century]
(Italy) [SMT I p. 65]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
GB-Lbl Ms. Additional 31392 [end of the 16th century]
(England) [RISM B/VII p. 181]
  • 7-course lute in French tablature
  • 7-course bandora in French tablature
GB-Ob Mus. Sch. D.237 [end of the 16th century]
Tessier, Charles. (England) [NG: Tessier, Charles]
  • lute and voice in standard notation and French tablature
I-BDG Ms. ohne Signatur [end of the 16th century]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 14 (as I-BDGchilesotti)]
  • 7-course lute in Italian tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Magliabechiano, XIX, codice 137 [end of the 16th century]
(Italy) [RISM B/VII p. 111; TYLER p. 91]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
  • 5-course guitar in Italian tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Magliabechiano, XIX, codice 179 [end of the 16th century]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 113]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
I-Fn Ms. Fondo Banco Rari 62 [end of the 16th century]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 117]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature
S-Skma Sackska samlingen Tabulaturbok "Tabulaturbok" [end of the 16th century]
(Germany) [see Rudén p. 35]
  • 6-course lute in German tablature
US-R Ms. Vault M.140.F.398 [end of the 16th century]
(Italy?) [RISM B/VII p. 301]
  • 6-course lute in Italian tablature

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