Dear Arthur & All,
Even though we are looking at two sets of images 
of the same prints, the published and online facsimilies
are interesting to compare. Two things are immediately
apparent. The library stamp has been removed from the
title page of the Minkoff edition, which is fair enough
as it's not part of the original, but it does make one wonder
about any other details that might have been 'retouched.'
Secondly, many of the stave lines in the online images
are very distorted, but in the Minkoff print they are dead
straight. So the stave lines must surely have been straight
when the Paris photos were taken. I wonder if the distortion that
has since occurred might have been from the book being in damp
conditions during the war years? At least, it's good to know
that Petrucci didn't print those wobbly lines! It's also very nice
to see the corrections Petrucci's workshop made to misprints - see
for example f.32v, Libro Primo,fourth measure of 'Adieu mes amours'
where the second event has been corrected.Or f.5r of the Libro Primo,
top stave, 6th measure, first event: the handwritten '5' is reasonably
clear in both versions, but in the online copy it's much clearer that
the '3' below it is handwritten, and that a further tablature letter
below that has been erased.Despite the fact that we are in theory looking
at two identical sets of images, there are subtle differences that are
worth looking out for.

Best wishes,

Denys







 

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Ness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 01 December 2007 23:00
To: Lute Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spinacino online

----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:22 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spinacino online

Dear Wolfgang,

On 12/1/2007, "wolfgang wiehe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you noticed differences to the minkoff facsimile?

Interesting! I have both. Could you show us what differences you have found
thus far?

All the best,

Arto
====================================================
Dear Arto and friends,

They are the same book.  Before its discovery in Krakow, the only surviving
copy of Spinacino (books 1 & 2) was in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin (shelf
number Mus. ant. pract.
P680/1-2).  It disappeared during WW_II, and was known after the war from a
Photostat made by Genevieve Thibault (iirc), and
deposited in the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris.   The original
Berlin copy (the only one known in modern days) turned up in Krakow about
ten years ago.

Thus the on-line digitalizecd copy and Mrs. Minkoff's facsimile are
reproductions of the very same book. At one time, Mrs.
Minkoff
retouched some of pages in her facsimiles, but stopped that parctice after
receiving complaints.  In one instance she removed fingering dots that she
thought were fly specs (or something like that).<g> But I do not know if she
did so with her Spinacino facsimile, which is fairly late, and probably
after she got the "Word" (from Bob Spencer).

There is a modern edition of both books with transcrption and parallel
tablature in H. L. Schmidt's dissertation at U of North Carlina at Chapel
Hill.

==AJN (Boston, Mass.)
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