Sources

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• Bittner, J PIECES DE LUTH
  Bittner, Jacques PIECES DE LUTH

• Francisque, Antoine: Le Trésor d’ Orphée/contenant une Susane un Jour/plusieur Fantasies Preludes Passemaises/etc., mises par/Antoine Francisque A Paris. 64 pp., 1600
  [from imslp.org]
  The first source to contain pieces (Branles, Pavanne) which alter the tuning of the lute: cordes avalées (“swallowed” strings, courses), may be played on an 8 to 10-course lute.

• Gaultier, Denis: Pièces de Luth/de/Denis Gaultier sur trois différens Modes/Nouveaux A Paris, 84 pp., 1671, [from imslp.org]
  The definitive printed source which set the standard of content, tuning, appearance and composition of much lute music of the second half of the 17th Century.

• Suite pour la Luth par J. S. Bach, BWV 995/1011, in G minor, original.

• Suite in E minor, BWV 996, facsimile from IMSLP,
  the copy prepared much later, probably written for lute-harpsichord, copied by Johann Gottfried Walther