Corpus des luthistes is a website dedicated to the Renaissance lute tablatures. The site collects the digital reproductions of three sixteenth-century tablatures by the Italian lutenists Francesco Spinacino and Vincenzo Capirola. Download free of charge the reproductions of the sources in PDF file, as well as the analytical descriptions of the sources.

The project was born in 2007, for the centenary of Spinacino’s first book tablature edition, as a digital development of the researches in this field by Jean-Michel Vaccaro, for the series Corpus des Luthistes Français (CNRS editions), and by many other visiting scholars of the Center for Renaissance Studies in Tours. This is a project in progress, periodically enriched with new digital reproductions and modern transcriptions of tablatures.

Musicologists interested in contributing are invited to contact the responsible of the project, Philippe Vendrix.

Contributors

Philippe Canguilhem

Philippe Vendrix


Roles: Cleric ; Composer ; Instrumentalist ; Member of a court chapel (musician)

Antoine Brumel fl. 1483-1512

Roles: Choirmaster ; Cleric ; Composer ; Instrumentalist ; Master of choirboys ; Singer

Antoine Busnoys fl. 1467-1492†

Roles: Choirmaster ; Cleric ; Composer ; Copyist/Scribe ; Instrumentalist ; Lyricist-Poet ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Singer ; Writer/Scientist

Antoine de Févin circa 1470-1511/1512

Roles: Composer ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Singer

Denis Prioris fl. 1491-1515†

Roles: Choirmaster ; Composer ; First Chaplain ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Organist ; Singer

Heinrich Isaac fl. 1480-1517†

Roles: Composer ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Member of a princely/private household ; Organist ; Singer

Jean de Okeghem fl. 1443-1497†

Roles: Artist/Craftsman ; Choirmaster ; Composer ; Member of a church (musician) ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Singer ; Student

Roles: Cleric ; Composer ; Instrumentalist ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Singer

Roles: Cleric ; Composer ; Instrumentalist ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Member of a princely/private household ; Singer

Leo X [Giovanni de' Medici] 1475-1521

Roles: Dedicatee/Owner ; Employer/Patron ; Priest

Nicolaus Craen fl. 1501-1507†

Roles: Choirmaster ; Composer ; Singer

Robert Morton fl. 1457-1483†

Roles: Cleric ; Composer ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Priest

Roles: Composer ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Organist ; Singer

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Vendrix Philippe, Corpus des Luthistes (2007-2011), in RicercarDataLab [https://ricercardatalab.cesr.univ-tours.fr/projects/10/] (accessed 23 January 2026).

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