Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, an early 17th-century English manuscript collection of 297 pieces for keyboard by many of the major composers of the period, including William Byrd, who is represented by 67 pieces; John Bull (44); Giles Farnaby (52); and Peter Philips (19). In his preface to the 1899 edition, W. Barclay Squire proposed that the original manuscript had been copied by the younger Francis Tregian (1574?–1618) during a long confinement for recusancy in the Fleet...