This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Gaspar Sanz's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.

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Short ID:  GS25c.
Title:     Passacalles.
Composer:  Gaspar Sanz.
Source:    Instruccion; tomo 2; page 5.
Date:      1697.
Facsimile: Minkoff, 1976.

Tuning:    Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig:  C.

Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String): 
  M16 alignment of fret numbers was not clear.  It was hard to distinguish 
    between
     _________________________
    |__0____0|_0____0|__0___0|    I went with the 2nd choice here.  
    |____2___|___2___|____2__|    (Note that p3 in that measure is a 
    |________|_______|_______|    likely spot for adding the high octave.)
    |_0____0_|_0___0_|_0____0|
    |________|_______|_______|
    |________|_______|_______|

  M8p1s1 original showed a mordent symbol (lower grace note).  Mordent 
    eliminated here since it's hardly possible.  
  
  In the original, the double bars that occur within a piece were short, 
  spanning only the inner 2 spaces of the tablature staff.  

  M18 is an example of a passage in Sanz that leads people to wonder if 
  he had a high G string on his 3rd course.  

Explanation of symbols: 
  " = trill, generally starting on upper neighbor. 
  # = vibrato.
  , = mordent, main note to lower neighbor and back to the main note.

Strums: Arrowheads ^ and v indicate strums. Open strings in strummed chords 
  were not shown in the tablature; add as many open strings as sound good. 
  For a nicer appearance, redraw the arrowhead right at the top or bottom of 
  its stem and white-out the printed one. 

Octave doublings: If you play this on a modern guitar, consider adding or 
  substituting the octave above any note played on the 4th or 5th string. 

Leading measures in Sanz's original tablature:
  1 12.  Last measure is 20.


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                                 Passacalles.                              GS25c: Page 1 of 1.
  Baroque guitar (A D G B E).  Leading measures: 1 10 17.                         Gaspar Sanz.

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_____________v__________v____________v__________________________v___v____v______________________
________0|_1___2_0_2|_3__________|_3___3____|_1___||_5_3_1_0|_1___5__|_3__________|___0____|____
__3_2_3__|_3___1____|_3__________|_3___2_0_2|_3___||________|_3___3__|_3___3_1____|_____2__|____
_________|_2___2____|____________|_____2____|_2___||________|_2___5__|_3_______3_2|_0___0__|____
_________|__________|_____3_2_0__|_____2____|_____||________|_____4__|_5___0______|________|____
_________|__________|_1_________3|_1________|_____||________|________|____________|_1_____0|____
_________|__________|____________|__________|_____||________|________|____________|________|____

      ___ ___ ___  ___ ___ ___ ___  ___ ___ ___ ___  ___ ___ ___ ___         ___ ___  ^ ___     
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___||____________|___0_1_0________|_3______________|_0______________|_1___||_0_____0|_1___0_5___
_3_||_1__________|_3_______3_1____|________________|___3_2_0________|_3___||___2____|_3_____3___
___||___3_2_0____|_____________3_2|_3_2_0__________|_________2_0____|_____||________|_2_____5___
_0_||_________3_2|_0______________|_______3_2_0____|_____________3_2|_0___||_0___0__|___0___4___
___||____________|________________|_____________3_1|_0______________|_____||________|___________
___||____________|________________|________________|________________|_____||________|___________

 ___  ^   ___ ___  ^ ___   ___                                                                  
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________v_______________________________________________________________________________________
____|_3_____2____|_3_____0____|_1_______||_()___________________________________________________
____|_3__________|_3_2_3___3_2|_3_______||_()()_________________________________________________
_3__|_3___0___0__|_3__________|_________||_()()()_______________________________________________
____|____________|____________|_0_______||_()()()_______________________________________________
___0|___________0|_______0____|_________||_()()_________________________________________________
____|____________|____________|_________||_()___________________________________________________