Resources and select bibliography for the study of music sources

(Stephen Rose, Loukia Drosopoulou, Donald Burrows)

Papermaking and watermarks

Introductory videos on papermaking and watermarks

Papermaking today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3PfwOItto

Re-creating historical papermaking practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmfdV_cZU

Watermark databases (there are several online databases on watermarks where you can browse
different types; this website pulls some of these together):
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/archive-research-old/lima/paper/describing/databases/

Webpages (there are several websites with information about paper-making and watermarks. The website
below is from the National Archives and includes links to other web-resources):
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/watermarks-new-ways-to-see-and-search-them/
European paper-making techniques 1300-1800
http://paper.lib.uiowa.edu/european.php

Select bibliography:
A. H. Shorter, Paper Making in the British Isles (Newton Abbot, 1971)
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01003373376

Edward Heawood, Watermarks : mainly of the 17th and 18th century (Hilversum, 1950)
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004158404

W. A. Churchill, Watermarks in paper in Holland, England, France, etc, in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their
Interconnection (Amsterdam, 1935) http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004155372

Allan H. Stevenson, ‘Watermarks Are Twins’, Studies in Bibliography 4 (1951/1952), pp.57-91, 235
http://www.jstor.com/stable/40371091

Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1994) http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01009534365

Paul Everett, ‘Towards a Chronology of Vivaldi Manuscripts’ in Informazioni e studi vivaldiani. Bollettino
annuale dell’ Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, 8, 1987, pp. 90-107. http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-
ALL:BLL01009852189

Alan Tyson, ‘The Problem of Beethoven’s “First” “Leonore” Overture’, Journal of the American Musicological
Society 28 (1975), 292-334; see Appendix ‘Ground Rules for the Description of Watermarks’,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/830770

Frederick Hudson, ‘The Earliest Paper made by James Whatman the Elder’, Music Review 38 (1977), 15;
revised version in W. Rehm (ed.), Bachiana et alia musicologica (Kassel, 1983)

Wisso Weiß, Katalog der Wasserzeichen in Bachs Originalhandschriften, Neue Bach Ausgabe ix/1 (Kassel,
1985), http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005304766
Rastrology

Eugene K. Wolf and Jean K. Wolf, ‘Rastrology and its use in eighteenth-century manuscript studies’, in
Studies in musical sources and style: Essays in honor of Jan LaRue (Madison: A-R Editions, WI, 1990), pp.237-
292.
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01012014313

Paul Everett: ‘The Application and Usefulness of `Rastrology', with particular reference to Early Eighteenth-
Century Italian Manuscripts’ in Musica e filologia (Verona: Edizioni della Società Letteraria, 1983), pp. 135-
158.

Eugene K. Wolf in collaboration with Jean K. Wolf and Paul Corneilson: Manuscripts from Mannheim, ca.
1730-1778: a study in the methodology of musical source research (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002).
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01008704385

Bookbindings

David Pearson, English bookbinding styles 1450-1800: a handbook (London: The British Library & Oak Knoll
Press, 2005).

Margaret Lock, Bookbinding materials and techniques 1700-1920, (Toronto: The Canadian Bookbinders and
Book Artists Guild, 2003). http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01013216841

Databases and resources for bookbinding terminology, materials, and techniques

British Library Database of Bookbindings: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/

Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington. Drawings by Margaret R. Brown, Bookbinding and the conservation of
books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology. Electronic Edition (American Institute for Conservation)
https://cool.culturalheritage.org/don/

Marbled paper patterns: https://content.lib.washington.edu/dpweb/patterns.html

Music Printing and Publishing

Donald William Krummel, English music printing 1553-1700 (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1975).
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01009534507

Donald William Krummel and Stanley Sadie (eds.), Music printing and publishing (Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1990). http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01009535485

Charles Humphries and William Charles Smith, Music publishing in the British Isles from the beginning until
the middle of the nineteenth century … 2nd edition, with supplement (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1970).
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004158613
Music Copying

Donald Burrows, 'You can’t have it of Smith except you’ll have it wrote out on purpose': Eighteenth-
century copyists of Handel’s music in London and the 'Smith Scriptorium', in British music, musicians and
institutions, c.1630–1800: Essays in honour of Harry Diack Johnstone, edited by Peter Lynan and Julian
Rushton (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021), pp.225-239.
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01020470326

Eugene K. Wolf in collaboration with Jean K. Wolf and Paul Corneilson: Manuscripts from Mannheim, ca.
1730-1778: a study in the methodology of musical source research (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002).
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01008704385

Dexter Edge, Mozart's Viennese copyists, PhD thesis Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 2001,
pp. xliv, 2416.

Jens Peter Larsen, Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Compositions, Sources (London, 1957)
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01002079996

Donald Burrows, ‘Dating: How Close Can We Get’, in Michael Burden and Irena Cholij (eds.), A Handbook for
Studies in 18th-Century English Music (Edinburgh, 1987), 67-73 http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-
ALL:BLL01009540210

Donald Burrows, ‘Sources, Resources and Handel Studies’, in Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks (eds.),
Handel Tercentenary Collection (London: Macmillan, 1987), 19-42,
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09139-3_2

Donald Burrows, ‘The Autographs and Early Copies of Messiah: Some Further Thoughts’, Music & Letters 66
(1985), 201-219, https://www.jstor.org/stable/854574

Alfred Dürr, Zur Chronologie der Leipziger Vokalwerke J.S. Bachs, 2nd ed. (Kassel, 1975),
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01010535967

English summary of Bach source studies in Yo Tomita, ‘Manuscripts’, in The Routledge Research Companion
to Johann Sebastian Bach (Abingdon, 2016), chapter 3,
https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315452814.ch3

General literature on printed books and manuscripts

Mark Bland, A guide to early printed books and manuscripts (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01019853893