Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904

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186. Spataro, Joannes.—Errori de Franchino Gafurio da Lodi: i sua deffensione et del suo preceptore Maestro Bartolomeo, Ramio, Hispano: subtilmente demonstrati. Spataro's first rejoinder to Gafurius. Lent by Mr. J. E. Matthew.
3Bononia, 1521.
587. Spataro, Joannes.—Et probatissime Demonstratione contra certe frivole et vane excusation. Lent by Mr. J. E. Matthew.
7No reply of Gafurius to Spataro's "Errori de Franchino Gafurio" is extant, but some rejoinder must have been made by him or his friends which called forth the above invective. Gafurius died in 1522.
988. Agricola, Martin.—Musica instrumentalis deudsch. Lent by Mr. Alfred Littleton.
11George Rhaw.
12Wittemberg, 1529.
1489. Spataro, Joannes.—Tractato nel quale si tracta de la perfectione de la perfectione de la sesquialtera, etc. Lent by Mr. J. E. Matthew.
16Treatise mostly against Gafurio, although he had been in his grave for ten years.
1890. Luscinius, Ottomar.—Musurgia seu Praxis Musicæ. Lent by Mr. Alfred Littleton.
20Joannes Schott.
21Strasburg, 1536.
2391. Listenius, Nicolaus.—Musica: ab authore denuo recognita, multisq: novis regulis et exemplis adaucta. Lent by the Royal College of Music.
25Nuremberg (n. d.) (1540 ?).
2792. Parker, Archbishop.—Psalter, presented by his wife Margaret to the then Countess of Shrewsbury, with inscription on fly-leaf. Lent by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
291567.
3193. Arbeau, Thoinot.—Orchesographie et Traicte en forme de Dialogue. Lent by Mr. J. E. Matthew.
33Langres, 1588.
3594. Praetorius, Michael.—Syntagmatis Musici Tomus (Secundus et Terrius). Vol. I. (in Latin), Wittemberg, 1615. Vols. II. and III. (in German), Wolfenbüttel, 1619. One of the rarest books in musical literature. Lent by Mr. J. E. Matthew.
3795. Praetorius, Michael.—Syntagma Musicum. Johannis Richter, Wittemberg, and Elias Hofwein. Lent by Mr. Alfred Littleton.
39Wolfenbüttel, 1615—1620.
4196. Mersenne, Marin.—Harmonie Universelle. One of the rarer works of musical literature. Lent by Mr. J. E. Matthew.
43Paris, Cramoisy, 1636.

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