Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xv

Note to the Reader

pp xvi-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Introducing the Eglantine Table

pp 1-18

Part I - Silent Things

pp 19-20

1 - The Table: Models and Artistic Context

pp 21-34

2 - Botany, the Table and Hardwick New Hall

pp 35-46

3 - The Playing Cards and Gaming Boards

pp 47-56

4 - The Writing Implements

pp 57-66

Part II - Music and Instruments

pp 67-68

5 - The Music in Staff Notation

pp 69-100

6 - The Book of Lute Tablature

pp 101-112

7 - ‘A full and lively pourtraiture’: The Table as Evidence for Tudor Musical Instruments

pp 113-124

8 - The Bowed Instruments and Bows

pp 125-136

9 - The Gittern or Guitar

pp 137-148

10 - The Cittern

pp 149-160

11 - The Lute

pp 161-170

12 - The Harp

pp 171-180

13 - The Wind Instruments

pp 181-188

Part III - Broader Views of the Eglantine Table

pp 189-190

14 - The Table and the Music of the 1560s

pp 191-204

15 - Pipers, Fiddlers and the Musical Lives of the Majority

pp 205-218

16 - Tables of the Mind

pp 219-228

Appendices

pp 229-230

Appendix 1 - The Renovation of the Eglantine Table by Tankerdale Ltd, 1996

pp 231-239