Traditional Ex Libris, Orality and Book Thieves
Keywords:
traditional bookplate, biblio-graphic description, printed music, biblio-graphic record, orality, traditional ex librisAbstract
The elaboration process of the bibliographical records of collections of printed music is full of surprises. This note describes the discovery of a curious ex libris or bookplate contained in a nineteenth-century violin method. It is a type of traditional ex libris, in Spain and Latin America, which contains the classic, popular formula with the incipit «si este libro se perdiera...» (“if this book should get lost…”). These simple ex libris, although they are,mostly transmitted in written form, present stylistic characteristics and modes of evolution, which are typical of oral transmission.
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