DHV:
878
Tourin ID:
VIC 02, KENS 6
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London (Southwark)
Henry
Jaye
Date:
1667
Label Text:
Henry Jaye in / Southwarke / 1667 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
173-1882
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Carl Engel (in 1872, 1876)
Measurements:
Body Length:
43.2
String Length:
42.5
Rib Depth:
9.1
Upper Width:
20.3
Middle Width:
15
Bottom Width:
25.8
Information
Source:
Fleming 2001: VME 17; Pringle (drawing and text) 1979; PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Fleming 2016, pp. 199-200; Fleming 2007, p. 30 (JP 11); Fleming 2001: VME 17; König 1985, p. 31; Coates 1985, pp. 44-47; Baines 1968, p. 3; Engel 1876, p. 68; Engel 1874, pp. 338-9; Engel 1872, p. 22 (no. 160)
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color], FB+SS, head F+S, rosette); Fleming 2001: VME F17 (front body only), L30 (rosette), L58 (back, bottom rib) [all color]; Woodfield & Robinson 2001, 26:673, fig. 12b (front); König 1985, p. 36 (front); Harwood 1981, p. 473 (front); Woodfield & Robinson 1980, 3:745, fig. 11b (front); Woodfield & Robinson 1980, 19:800, fig. 11b (front); Baines 1968, fig. 1 (front, back 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Fleming 2001: treble/tenor; Pringle 1979 and König 1985: alto; Baines 1968: small tenor; Engel 1872: “Counter-tenor viol”. Baines: Ribs cut down and back bent in lower bout for playing on shoulder. Pegbox original; decoration of it and body very similar to 1624 Jaye bass in Paris; label identical. Soundpost plate probably original; fingerboard and tailpiece not. Back and ribs of sycamore [recte: plum], except lower fold of mahogany. Rosette; purfling around soundholes. Bridge design unusual, maybe 18th C. Fleming 2001: 7-piece table with purfled oval rose; double purfling front and back; original neck (though angle and length altered), also pegbox and head. Fleming 2016: Jaye died in 1636; this viol perhaps by Robert Jay, a fellow Fletcher and parishioner who may have been a brother or cousin. On display 10/01 + 8/03: scroll and pegbox heavily carved, also neck foot. Drawing by Pringle (1979) available from museum. König 1985 dimensions: 44.2, 20.4/14.9/26.0, 9.0, 42.5.