DHV:
167
Tourin ID:
BRUS 33
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
G. Battista
Ciciliano
Date:
1560 C ?
Label Text:
Batista fiol d'Anto Cicilian in Va
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1425
Head:
Animal
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Count Pietro Correr, Venice, -1886
Measurements:
Body Length:
59.6
String Length:
61.8
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
32.2
Middle Width:
20.5
Bottom Width:
35
Information
Source:
Moens 1995, pp. 225-30; Exposition 1969, pp. 58-9; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Hopfner 2008, p. 212; Beuting 2007, pp. 202-03; Moens 1995, pp. 225-30; Exposition 1969, pp. 58-9; Mahillon 1900, 3:47
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]); Pio 2011, p. 110 (FB+S, top off); Moens 2000, p. 5 (F [color]); Moens 1995, p. 226 (F+S); Woodfield 1984, p. 128 (front); Exposition 1969, p. 59
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon (and website): viole bâtarde. Moens 1995: label matches Brussels 1426 but not Yale Ciciliano. Interior construction comparable to Brussels 1424. Neck and pegbox probably cut from neck of a larger instrument. Possibly a 19th-C. copy of Brussels 1426 (NB only one viol by G.B. Ciciliano listed in Correr inventory.) Exposition 1969: Arched back; one-piece neck and pegbox. Ribs are walnut. Restored at museum in 1965 by Wolfgang Bünnagel. Tourin: no bass bar (!) or back braces; wood liners but linen at corners; tailpiece has hook and eye. Drawing by Raymond Passauro available from museum. Museum’s website date: 1543 (incertaine). Hopfner 2008: dendrochronology by M. Beuting (2007) gives date of 1518 for youngest growth ring on table