Thank you Arthur. What an extraordinary story, and what a happy ending. Howard Mayer Brown's book certainly lives on my desk. A good quality reprint is available on demand from iuniverse.com for the very reasonable price of $32.95. 560 jam-packed pages. http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1-58348-525-2
Peter On 20/04/07, Arthur Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the photostats made for Gen=E8vieve Thibault, are now > in the Biblioth=E8que 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 Sammelb=E4nde (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 fur Laute und > verwandte Instrumente in der Biblioteka Jagiello=F1ska > Krakow aus dem > Besitz der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek > Berlin. > ( Mainz ; New York : Schott, c1992), xxxiv, 432 p. : > ill., music ; 25 cm. > Schriften der Musikhochschule Wurzburg ; 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 > > > > -- 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/ --
