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MS Add.2764(2) MS Add.2764(2) (MS Add.2764(2) Page: cover), Add.2764(2) is a collection of fragments of pages from a single lute manuscript that was cut up and half pages were reused in the seventeenth century as strengthening material in the bindings of other books now in Cambridge University Library.  1585-1590 1585 Lute
MS Add.3056 Cosens lute book (MS Add.3056 Page: cover), The lute book Add.3056 lacks a title page bearing an owner's name and so it is now called the Cosens lute book after its nineteenth-century owner Frederick W. Cosens.  1610
RISM B/VII p. 78
1610 Lute
MS Add.8844 Trumbull lute book (MS Add.8844 Page: cover), The Trumbull lute book (MS Additional 8844) is a rare example of a personal lute book made and used by an English government official and diplomat. Apart from one item at the end, it was almost certainly copied c.1595 by William Trumbull (1575?-1635), secretary and later envoy to James I and then Charles I at the Brussels Court of Archduke Albert of Austria from at least 1605 to 1625. 1595 Lute
MS Dd.2.11 Mathew Holmes lute books (MS Dd.2.11 Page: i_R), Dd.2.11 is the first and largest of the four Mathew Holmes lute books, copied probably 1588-1595. 1588 Lute
MS Dd.4.22 MS Dd.4.22 (MS Dd.4.22 Page: 1r), Dd.4.22 is a manuscript of modest size with just 25 items in lute tablature copied c.1615 onto 24 pages in a single hand (plus two more items in mensural notation for keyboard copied inverted at the other end). 1615 Lute
MS Dd.5.78.3 Mathew Holmes lute books (MS Dd.5.78.3 Page: 1r), Dd.5.78.3 is the second of the four Mathew Holmes lute books, copied probably 1595-1600. 1600 Lute
MS Dd.9.33 Mathew Holmes lute books (MS Dd.9.33 Page: 1r), Dd.9.33 is third of the four Mathew Holmes lute books, copied probably 1600-1605. 1600 Lute
MS Doc.38 Indenture for the lease of a property [MS Doc. 38]  by Mathew Holmes, formerly the wrapper of CUL MS Nn.6.36. 1597. 1597 Lute?
MS Nn.6.36 Mathew Holmes lute books (MS Nn.6.36 Page: cover), Nn.6.36 is the fourth and last of the Mathew Holmes lute books, copied probably 1605-1615. 1605 Lute
MS Ashmole 410 Napier, vol. 43 (MS Ashmole 410 Page: 191r), Horary consultation concerning William Lute (25 April 1628, 11:30 A.M.) [upper right part of page] 1628 Lute