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Silvanus Stirrop's Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Pamela J. Willetts
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In 1968 Warren Royal Dawson bequeathed to the British Museum a collection of manuscripts mainly relating to Egyptology and the occult sciences but including some miscellaneous volumes. The unpromising title on the spine of one of these, ‘Aston and sundry MSS. ‘, now numbered Add. MS. 56279, concealed the remains of a volume of some interest for the history of Jacobean music and drama. In a note on a front flyleaf (f. 1) Dawson recorded that he bought the volume (number 22 in his numeration), together with his MS. 19, at a Sotheby sale in 1931. The volume was in poor condition and he had it pulled and rebound with blank interleaves; the foliation entered by Dawson on the latter will serve in this article to identify the several items contained in the volume until it can receive the further attention from the British Museum Bindery which it now requires.

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R.M.A. Research Chronicle , Volume 10 , 1972 , pp. 101 - 107
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1972

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1 Dawson's MS. 19 was the Purevey commonplace book (cf. the note in his catalogue, Add. MS. 56311, f.24). The sale has not so far been traced.Google Scholar

2 See Latham, Agnes, The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, London, 1951, pp. 104–108.Google Scholar

3 The hand can be identified from Harley MS. 1535, which contains collections of arms relating to Cheshire.Google Scholar

4 For the watermark See Heawood, E., Watermarks, Hilversum, 1950, no.481 (Schieland, Holland, 1602).Google Scholar

5 For the Astons of Aston See Burke, J., Extinct and Dormant Baronetoies, London, 1844, pp.25–26; The Harleian Society, lix, 1909 (Visitation of Cheshire, 1613), p.12.Google Scholar

6 For the main sources of lyra viol music See Traficante, F., ‘Music for Lyra Viol: The Printed Sources', The Lute Society Journal, viii, 1966, pp. 7–24; A. Woodford, ‘Music for Viol in Tablature: manuscript sources in the British Museum', Chelys, ii, 1970, pp. 23–33; M. Cyr, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Source of Ornamentation for Voice and Viol: British Museum MS. Egerton 2971', R.M.A. Research Chronicle, No. 9, pp. 53–72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7 Henry Watson Music Library, Central Library, Manchester, MS. 832 Vu 51.Google Scholar

8 Register copy of his will, Public Record Office, Prob. 11/127, f. 50.Google Scholar

9 Will, Cheshire Record Office.Google Scholar

10 Will, Cheshire Record Office.Google Scholar

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