Yes, the photostats made for Genèvieve Thibault, are now in the Bibliothèque nationale. The unique Berlin copy of Spinacino, long thought destroyed, was acknowledged by Polish authorities to be in Cracow only about 15 years ago.
In Brown's bibliography* ALL of the prints marked "D:Bds (L)" [for "Germany: Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek (Lost)"] have survived at the Jagiellonska Library in Cracow (about 50 16th-century titles). When I was in Berlin, I was able to consult the pre-war card catalogue in then East Berlin, and made a listing of all the lute prints and manuscripts that had been in the former Prussian State Library, including the call-numbers. When finally only about 15 years ago, the Polish authorities admitted they had the Berlin materials, I sent the list to an American guitarist studying in Cracow. He confirmed that each and every title was extant (except for an Adriannsen print). At first there was confusion, because many of the volumes were Sammelbände (bound volumes containing several often unrelated prints). When the collection was catalogued, reputedly by Polish students, only the first item in each Sammelband was noted. So through an oversight, many prints remained uncatalogued and were thought to have been lost. Also all of the manuscripts of lute music have survived, and an inventory* by Dieter Kirsch was published a few years ago. So a third of the treasures of surely the most important collection of music ever assembled were for forty+ years thought to have been destroyed during World War II. (These included Mozart's autograph manuscript for _Magic Flute._) I hope Stuart Walsh took a look when he was in Cracow. There's even some guitar music there, too. *Howard Mayer Brown. Instrumental Music printed before 1600: A bibliography. (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1965). This is a book that belongs on every lutenist's desk. It is out-of-print but an on-demand reprint can be acquired. Perhaps someone can post the information (David?). **Dieter Kirsch and Lenz Meirott, Berliner Lautentabulaturen in Krakau : beschreibender Katalog der handschriftlichen Tabulaturen für Laute und verwandte Instrumente in der Biblioteka Jagielloñska Kraków aus dem Besitz der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek Berlin. ( Mainz ; New York : Schott, c1992), xxxiv, 432 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm. Schriften der Musikhochschule Würzburg ; Bd. 3. NOTE: Catalog of intabulation incipits for lute, guitar and related plucked instruments from the middle of the 16th century (ms. 40154) until the end of the 18th century (ms. 40150) ==ajn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:26 AM Subject: [LUTE] Spinacino > My Minkoff facsimile of Spinacino says that the > original unique copy held in > Berlin before the second world war has disappeared, > and that the facsimile > was made from photographs. But I seem to remember > reading somewhere that > the original had been found again. Is this true? > > -- > Peter Martin > Belle Serre > La Caulie > 81100 Castres > France > tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.silvius.co.uk > http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
