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Guide to the Catalogues and the Book Patrimony

The dates should be considered as dates of acquisition of the documents, not as the dates of printing or compilation
(for example, an text edition from 1900 could have been acquired after 1904 and therefore would have to be searched in SBN; on the contrary, an edition later than 1904 can not be present in the Gaspari Catalogue, with the sole exception of the libretti).

MATERIAL		CATALOGUES
text (Treatises, methods, musical literature, etc.)	editions	until 1904 > Gaspari online from 1904 to today> SBN
	manuscripts	until 1904> Gaspari online
music	editions	until 1904> Gaspari online andSBN - in SBN, there are more ways of access and abstracts; Gaspari online is more updated and rich with supplementary information from 1904 to today > SBN (very partial: many collections, the sections XX.A-C, NAM, the acquisitions after 1904 located in the Sala Gaspari, and the Villa collection are missing) > card catalogue on site (complete but updated to 2001)
	manuscripts	until 1904> Gaspari online e SBN - in SBN, there are more ways of access and abstracts; Gaspari online is more updated and rich with supplementary information from 1904 to today> card catalogue on site
libretti		Gaspari online - search for composer and title; the search for libretti authors is possible only from the card catalogue in the museum
periodicals		until 1904> Gaspari online from 1904 to today> SBN - Cataloguing in process of being completed: it is the most exhaustive and updated catalogue of the library Catalogue of periodicals preserved at the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica and at the G.B. Martini Conservatory library.
photographs		On line catalogue
graphics		IMAGO
letters		On line catalogue
audio		card catalogue on site
musical instruments		On line catalogue John Henry van der Meer, Strumenti musicali europei del Museo civico medievale di Bologna. Con appendici dei fondi strumentali delle Collezioni comunali d'arte, del Museo Davia Bargellini e del Civico museo bibliografico musicale, Bologna, Nuova Alfa 1993
portraits and busts		On line catalogue C. Casali, G. Degli Esposti, A. Mazza (a cura di), La quadreria musicale di Padre Martini, Firenze, Olschki - ca. 800 pp., with more than 300 illustrations in black & white and color [in process of printing]