Contains songs by Robert Johnson and John Wilson, copied by John Playford. Some works attributed to Wilson are in fact by Johnson. Parts for three voices and continuo for "Where the Bee sucks" and "Full fathom five." Also parts for "When Troy Towne" and for "From the faire Lavinian shore." Some works include text underlay.
Note
[2] blank leaves, leaves 9-13, [28] blank leaves. Most likely written for a Jacobean restaging of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Originally leaves 9-13 were among loose papers that Playford copied for the old Jewry Music Society then he assembled some of the papers into an incomplete set of part books. The leaves were then removed from four Playford part books now in the Euing Music Collection at the University of Glasgow Library, R.d.58-61. Leaves 9-13 are accidentally consecutive. Songs listed in Folger index of first lines of poems.
Provenance
William Harrison (bookplate) -- Halliwell-Phillipps -- William Hayman Cummings (bookplate) Formerly Folger MS 747.1.
Source of acquisition
Purchased in July 1917 by Henry Clay Folger from Maggs Bros. in London.
