I thought it was Italian! I was under the impression that some artists Latinized/Italianized their names (Giovanni Coperario comes to mind)why not honorifics? Where did he get his degree, by the way?
Leonard On 4/23/17, 12:46 PM, "Rainer" <lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu on behalf of rads.bera_g...@t-online.de> wrote: >On 23.04.2017 14:29, Leonard Williams wrote: >> Thanks for the references and good information on Dowland! >> I have looked into the facsimiles of both the Este and Ravenscroft >> psalters. Este has 30 odd pieces by Dowland; Psalm 100 is not clearly >> listed under his name, but it appears in the book by "I.D.B. of M.". >>It >> is not the same as the setting I found. Ravenscroft also has Dowland's >> 100th, listed under "French tunes" (composer Bourgeois). (Ravenscroft >> promotes Dowland to "Dott. of M.") > >Heavens - this is a ligature of "c" and "t". Hence it reads Doct. :) > >Rainer > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
