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Scan 121
Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
14 lines. Read by computer on 30 September 2026. Printed page 107. See the scan on archive.org.
1to account for the excessive scarcity of the works of this master. The itinerant fashion in which they were disposed of, no doubt, placed the great bulk of them in hands little fitted to guide them properly, and this, I imagine, is the chief reason for their all but total disappearance.
3His tickets are all written, and that in a very crabbed hand, the most legibile ones which I have seen running as under, "Jacobus Stainer, in Absom prope Enipontum
5Jacobus Stainer in Absom prope Enipontum 1663.
7Jacobus Stainer in Absom prope Enipontum 1665.
9FIGS. 10 and 11. TICKETS OF JACOB STAINER.
11h-fis 16" (see Figs. 10 and 11)—which, I suppose, was intended to signify "made here in Absom, near Innsbruck, by Jacob Stainer." Enipontum, or Enipontum, is the Latin name for Innsbruck; "h-fis" is probably a corruption of "hic fecit."
13It is not difficult to read between the dry lines of Jacob Stainer's life as given above. A boy, not over robust, but of surpassing intelligence, whose artistic nature enlists the kindly offices of those a little
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