Scan 75
Catalog of Rare Old Violins, Violas, Violoncellos, Bows of Rare Makes, 1921
32 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
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
12Primus violinista
13idem ad Carolum Gand alumnun
14Nicolai Lupot Parisii's
15factoris, restaurandi
16causa commisit.
18Pro henrici quarti Sacrario Fecit hieronimus Amati anno 1595
19Made for the chapel of Henry the Fourth by Hieronimus Amati in the year 1595
20Primatii Pinxerunt alumni
21Decorated by his most distinguished pupils
22Obtinuit Marescalcus Bassompierre cujus annos bis centum Domus servavit
23Acquired by Marshal Bassompierre, in whose family it was kept for two hundred years
24Tandem requisivit J. B. Cartier e Sacrario Regis ludovici XVIII et ejusdem Acad-ie
25Primus Violinista
26Eventually it was obtained by J. B. Cartier from the chapel of Louis XVIII, of whose Academie he was the principal violinist
27idem ad Carolum Gand alumnun Nicolai Lupot Parisii's factoris, restaurandi
28causa commisit
29The same delivered it to Charles (Francois) Gand, the pupil of Nicolas Lupot the (violin) maker at Paris, for the purpose of repair
31Plate XI
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