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A printed illustration from the front page of Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia universalis" with a butterfly atop a lyre.
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From A (Athanasius) to Z (Zarlino): Changes in Printing Technologies and their Impact on Music Notation (12th-19th c.)
Musical notation, Ritter Collection
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Frédéric Louis Ritter Collection
Robert Frost presentation copy of West-Running Brook to John Holmes
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John Holmes Collection
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