[7] “The Troubadours and Courts of Love,” J. F. Rowbottham. London, 1895.
[8] “The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians,” Edward W. Lane.
[9] Persian Treatise on “The Reasons of Modulations in Chants,” by Abd-ul-cadir, 1418. This MS. is in the University of Leyden.
[10] An interesting and authentic rebec, is to be seen in the Donaldson Museum, at the Royal College of Music.
[11] “Lettres de Remission,” quoted by Laurent Grillét, “Ancêtres du Violon.”
[12] This play was first performed at Chambord, 14th October 1670.
[13] There is a fine Kerlino viola included in the Donaldson Collection, dated 1452. This was shown at the South Kensington Special Loan Exhibition in 1872. A similar example of the maker’s work, though not in such a high state of preservation, is in the Musée of the Conservatoire de Musique in Brussels.
[14] A facsimile representation of this viol and the title-page is included in Mr Heron Allen’s “De Fidiculis Bibliographia,” and “The Violin,” No. 5, a monthly, edited by Mr J. M. Fleming.
[15] I lived in the woods, until I was slain by the relentless axe. Whilst I was alive I was silent, but in death my melody is exquisite.
[16] Reproduced in Von Wasielewski “Die Violoncelle.”