Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

The  Stammbuehor album of Johann  Stobaeus, MS  Sloane  1021 in  the British  Library,  is  dated  January  8, 1640. Stobaeus, its owner, was Kapellmeister in  Konigsberg,  East  Prussia . The  album  contains  l6  pieces forteen or eleven-course  lute, including  dances, secular pieces with generic titles, and settings of  chorale  tunes .Other major material includes two short sets of lute instructions  for  singers of liturgical  music; poems by  members of th e  Komgsberger Diahterkres; and  short  rhymes  and  epigrams , many  of  which  concern  the  lute .

The Lute Music and Related Writings in the Stammbuch of Johann Stobaeus