The Panmure Manuscript Music Books

Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 26,619
Item date acquired: 1979
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Eleven volumes of manuscript music, including Duncan Burnetts book, a collection of 23 keyboard pieces by Scottish and English composers c.1600; Clement Matchetts book 1612, keyboard pieces containing amongst others the only known virginal piece by Willbye; Lady Jean Campbells book c.1635 of Scottish keyboard music and 43 pieces in French Lute tablature; Robert Edwards Commonplace book containing some musical pieces unknown from any other source

Item Provenance
Collection of the Earls of Panmure, deposited at NLS by the Earl of Dalhousie in 1957