DHV:
168
Tourin ID:
BRUS 34
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
G. Battista
Ciciliano
Date:
1560 C ?
Label Text:
Batista fiol d anto cicilian in Va [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1426
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Count Pietro Correr, Venice, -1886
Measurements:
Body Length:
60
String Length:
65
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
32.5
Middle Width:
20.6
Bottom Width:
34.5
Information
Source:
Moens 1995, pp. 225-30; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Hopfner 2008, p. 212; Beuting 2007, p. Moens 1995, pp. 225-30; Edmunds 1994, p. 25; Coates 1985, pp. 39-43; Edmunds 1980, pp. 75, 86-87; Mahillon 1900, 3:47
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]); Pio 2011, p. 11 (F+S); Moens 1995, p. 227 (F+B both inner and outer surfaces, label); Woodfield 1984, pp. 129-30 (front, label, lining); Baines 1966, pl. 86 (front)
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Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon (and website): viole bâtarde. 1995: Dendrochronology for table gives c. 1535; but later rings may have been cut off. Interior construction comparable to Brussels 1424. Label matches Brussels 1425 but not Yale Ciciliano. Edmunds 1994: date c. 1581; SL 66. Edmunds 1980 dimensions 59.5, 33.0/-/35.5, 12.5, 63-67. Baines 1966: “? sixteenth century”; shaped end of fingerboards; body length 61 (back), 59.7 (belly). Tourin (seen with table off): table with single purfling, back with none; back and ribs of unknown wood; no back braces; wooden liners but cloth at corners; 2 nails in top block, hole for hook and eye in bottom block; neck not original. Hopfner 2008: dendrochronology by M. Beuting (2007) gives date of 1527 for for youngest growth ring on table.