15Aug25: I added an 80-page MS: US-R:Sibley Music Library M140.F398:Ferrutio Lute_MS (1590) to the collection. This is an Italian tab MS that consists entirely of dances: passamezzos, padoanas, and saltarellos. Overall, it seems similar to the Castlefranco MS (maybe by the same scribe?). There are versions of La Gamba, la Fioretta, and Lodesana that look like trios.
The rhythm flags are quite inaccurate in the MS. I have had to go on the assumption that the measures are each of the same length in order to make sense of them. Furthermore, I had trouble making sense of several of the transitions between pages. Some of the pages did not lead gracefully into the next page.
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