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The Visby (Petri) Tablature is a north German organ tablature written circa 1600 (completed 1611). Located in the Landsarchivet in the city of

Visby on the island of Gotland in Sweden.

Other names

 * Visby Tablature
 * Berendt Petri Tablature
 * JohannBahr Tablature
 * Bahrsche Handschrift
 * Bährsche Tabulatur
 * Wisbyer Tabulaturevon J. Bähr
 * Die Hamburg Orgeltabulatur
 * The Visby (Petri) Tablature

Contributors and owners

 * Berendt Petri (Possible student of Jacob) 1st owner and scribe
 * Hieronymus Praetorius
 * Jacob Praetorius (son of Hieronymus)
 * Johann Bahr 2nd owner

Details
The only dates in the MS other than 1611 are:


 * 1603—the earliest, found on an anonymous Kyrie Summum
 * 1609—found on the anonymous Magnificat Germanice
 * 1655 &1666—dates entered by Bahr on two of his own compositions.
 * The MS consists of 92 folios (184 pages) altogether, of which Petri used 121, Bahr used 14, and 49 remain blank. The music is written solely in the newGerman organ tablature.

Restoration
It was restored in 1962, resulting in the loss of a fewmeasures in folio 90r. There is minimal water damage on folio 69v/70r.