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Scan 47
Catalog of Rare Old Violins, Violas and Violoncellos: Also Bows of Rare Makes, 1917
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1Latin Inscription Inside Back of Henry IV Amati Violin, Number 4913, in Lyon & Healy's Collection, with Translation
3Pro henrici quarti Sacrario
4Fecit hieronimus Amati anno 1595
5Primatii Pinxerunt alumni
6Obtinuit Marescalcus Bassompierre
7cujus annos bis centum Domus Servavit one of two readings
8cujus annos bis centum Domus servavit one of two readings
9Tandem requisivit J.B. Cartier
10e Sacrario Regis ludovici XVIII
11et ejusdem Acadie Primus Violinista
12idem ad Carolum Gand alumnun
13Nicolai Lupot Parisiis factoris, restaurandi causâ commisit.
15Pro henrici quarti Sacrario Fecit hieronimus Amati anno 1595
16Made for the chapel of Henry the Fourth by Hieronimus Amati in the year 1595
17Primatii Pinxerunt alumni
18Decorated by his most distinguished pupils
19Obtinuit Marescalcus Bassompierre cujus annos bis centum Domus servavit
20Acquired by Marshal Bassompierre, in whose family it was kept for two hundred years
21Tandem requisivit J. B. Cartier e Sacrario Regis ludovici XVIII et ejusdem Acadie Primus Violinista
22Eventually it was obtained by J. B. Cartier from the chapel of Louis XVIII, of whose Academie he was the principal violinist
23idem ad Carolum Gand alumnun Nicolai Lupot Parisiis factoris, restaurandi causâ commisit
24The 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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