« Tablature de guitare ». « Tablettes de guitarre, fait par M. Dupille commissaire des guerres demeurant rue de l'Espron, chez M. Mascron, avocat en Parlement »
A manuscript guitar tablature book compiled by Constantin Louis Dupille, a French war commissary, in 1649 for a Parisian lawyer's household, collecting dance pieces such as chaconnes, passacailles, branles and sarabandes. The page shows handwritten five-line staves with letter and figure notation above a bass-like line, with lyrics written in beneath the notes, offering a designer a raw, hand-inked record of early baroque notation with its irregular ink strokes and marginal page numbering.
