Scan 43

A catalogue of the Lyon & Healy collection of rare old violins, violas, viloncellos, bows of rare makes, 1929

31 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1Latin Inscription Inside Back of Henry IV Amati Violin

2Number 8169, in the Lyon & Healy Collection, with Translation

4Pro henrici quarti Sacrario

5Fecit hieronimus Amati anno 1595

6Primatii Pinxerunt alumni

7Obtinuit Marescalcus Bassompierre

8cujus annos bis centum Domus servavit

9Tandem requisivit J.B. Cartier

10e Sacrario Regis ludovici XVIII

11et ejusdem Primus violinista

12idem ad Carolum Gand alumnun

13Nicolai Lupot Parisii's

14factoris, restaurandi

15causa commisit.

17Pro henrici quarti Sacrario Fecit hieronimus Amati anno 1595

18Made for the chapel of Henry the Fourth by Hieronimus Amati in the year 1595

20Primatii Pinxerunt alumni

21Decorated by his most distinguished pupils

23Obtinuit Marescalcus Bassompierre cujus annos bis centum Domus servavit

24Acquired by Marshal Bassompierre, in whose family it was kept for two hundred years

26Tandem requisivit J. B. Cartier e Sacrario Regis ludovici XVIII et ejusdem Acad-ie Primus Violinista

27Eventually it was obtained by J. B. Cartier from the chapel of Louis XVIII, of whose Academie he was the principal violinist

29idem ad Carolum Gand alumnun Nicolai Lupot Parisii's factoris, restaurandi causa commisit

30The same delivered it to Charles (Francois) Gand, the pupil of Nicolas Lupot, the (violin) maker at Paris, for the purpose of repair

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