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A10856 New citharen lessons with perfect tunings of the same, from foure course of strings to fourteene course, euen to trie the sharpest teeth of enuie, with lessons of all sortes, and methodicall instructions for all professors and practitioners of the citharen. By Thomas Robinson, student in all the seuen liberall sciences. Robinson, Thomas, fl. 1589-1609. 1609 (1609) STC 21127; ESTC S101592 4,603 98

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