LMAB RS F 15-284 Liber tabulatura The scribe of the manuscript is Jacobus Apfell who studied at the Jesuit theological academy in Braunsberg. During his studies there he could have prepared the larger part of the notation collection. The title page bears the inscription “studiosus Vormditensia” next to his surname. Later the compiler worked in German Cistercian St. Mary`s monastery in Oliva where he could have continued compiling the tablature. The manuscript was preserved at the Prussian State archives in Königsberg (Preussiches Staatsarchive, MSC A 115), and in the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences since 1949 . There are about 300 musical pieces of different genres in the collection. Part of them consists of transcribed vocal music in unembellished form. These include motets, magnificats, parts of masses, madrigals, Latin chants, German Lieder and Church chants, songs of Orlando di Lasso etc. The instrumental pieces include fugues, praeambulas, canzonas and various dances (Pavana, Galiarda, Saltarella, Curante and dances without titles). The tablature’s notation follows the new German tablature. Most of the pieces are anonymous. Next to certain pieces the following composers are named: Agostino Agazzari, Gregor Aichinger, Matteo Asola, Francseso Bianciardi, William Byrd, Diomedes Cato, Giovanni Batista Cocciol, Giovani Croce, Petrus de Drusina, Stefano Fellis, Giovani Ferretti, Jhan Gero, Andreas Hakenberger, Jakob Handl, Hans Leo Hassler, Orlando di Lasso, Gemignani Cap. Lupi, Jacob Mailand, Hieronymus Praetorius, Bartolomeo Le Ruy, Lucrezio Ruffulo, Annibale Stabile, Orazio Vecchi, Lodovico Viadana, Pandolfo Zallamella, Gregorio Zuchini and monogramists A.P.D., P.D.D., A.N.C.