As I found this book in the Public Library of Stuttgart, Germany, I became inmediatly aware of the lot of data concerning the provenance of the instruments made by Stradivari this book contains.
Despite of the lot of valuable data this book has, it lacks an important thing for researchers: an index, where you can find fast, on which page stay the data of the Gibson as an example. If you don't know in which year the instrument you are looking for was made, you have to browse through many pages until you find it. For my research efforts a quit uncomfortable condition. For this reason I decided to build an index with the instruments stated in this book. For those who also own it I'm publishing my index in this web page. I hope, I can help some of you finding instruments sooner in Henley's book.
At first I'm listing an index sorted for each kind of instrument after the year they were made. The instruments are listed in the same sequence as they are in the book: all the violins (V), then all the violas (Va) and finally all the cellos (C). In this index I added an sequence number not contained in the Henley's book.
There are two exceptions in the year sorted index:
After the year sorted index I'm listing another one sorted after the names of the instruments regardless of their building year or kind of instrument. Nameless instruments appears at the bottom end of this list. While sorting after names the "ex" prefix as well as the "`" have not been considered.
Year Sorted IndexNo. | Year | Name | Kind | Notes | Page | | 11664`Amatese'V-19
| 21667Aranyi ViolinV-19
| 31667ex Captain SavilleV-19
| 41668A ViolinV (nameless)19
| 51668AmateseV-20
| 61669A ViolinV (nameless)20
| 71672`Selliere'V-20
| 81677`Le Lever du Soleil'V`The Rising Sun'20
| 91677A ViolinV (nameless)20
| 101679`Hellier'V-20
| 111679ex Parrera CollectionV-20
| 121680`Paganini'V-21
| 131680A ViolinV (nameless)21
| 141681`Reynier'V-21
| 151682A ViolinV (nameless)22
| 161683ex HillV-22
| 171683ex `Cipriani Potter'V-22
| 181683`Martinelli'V-22
| 191683`Earl of Aylesford'V-22
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