The Manuscript was probably purchased by Archbishop James Ussher, who from 1603 was sent to England on frequent voyages to buy books "to furnish the Library of the University of Dublin".
The name "Dublin Virginal Manuscript" is modern, and there is no mention of any specific instrument for which the music was intended.
The Dublin Virginal Manuscript is important in the history of English keyboard music because of its date, being one of only five English secular keyboard sources that predate William Byrd's My Ladye Nevells Booke of 1591. It is also the second-oldest surviving English source (after the Mulliner Book) of early Almain tunes, of which it contains four.
The Dublin Virginal Manuscript also represents an important step in the development of secular English keyboard music from around 1530 to its golden age in the late 16th century, with examples of developing counterpoint in some pieces. [Willi Apel - The History of Keyboard Music to 1700 - Indiana UP, 1997]
Passing Measures Pavan
Galliard to the Passing Measures Pavan
Pavan "Mastyre Taylere"
Galliard to the pavan before
Pavan
Galliard to the pavan before
Pavan
Galliard to the pavan before
Variations on the romanesca
Divisions on the Goodnight ground
The Earl of Essex Measure
Branle Hoboken
Was not good King Solomon
Dance
Almande du prince
Le Reprinse of the Almande du Prince
Galliard
Almande Le Pied de Cheval
Almande Bruynsmedelijn
L'homme armé alias Lumber me
Pavan
Galliard to the pavan before
Galliard
Like as the lark within the marleon's foot
Turkeylony
Pavan
Galliard to the pavan before
Dance
Dance
Variations on Chi passa
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