VIRGINAL MUSIC, COLLECTIONS OF.
I. The most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of English 17th century instrumental music is that contained in the volume known for the last century by the misleading name of Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book. This book, which is now preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, is a small folio volume containing 220 folios of paper ruled by hand for music in 6-line staves, 209 of which are filled with music...