Stampe musicali italiane alla cattedrale di Malta. Storia e Catalogo della collezione (Italian printed music sources at the Malta Cathedral. History and Catalogue of the Collection - ACM, Mus. Pr. 1-159)
Malta, Publishers Enterprisers Group PEG, 1999,
199 pp., 8°, photos, indexes and bibliography - ISBN 99909-0-139-2
The study describes the origins and
the development of the Italian music printed collection held at
the Mdina Cathedral Archives. The collection, made up of 163 sets of polyphonic
books, include 17th century music representing mainly the Roman, Venetian
and Sicilian Polyphonic Schools. 23 sets out of 159 are unique exemplars
(mainly Sicilian sources) not yet recorded on Repertoire International
des Sources Musicales. The study is followed by an analytical / descriptive
catalogue of the prints. Two appendixes carry the transcription of the
1710 music inventory and a chronological list of the prints.