Paper and Copyists in Viennese Opera Scores

Paper	P21
Date of use	1772
Paper mill	Giovanni Battista Tadeoti, Toscolano
Commentary	P21 is similar to P54: Whereas the letter G, the crown and most parts of the crescents are identical, the watermarks differ clearly in the other two letters and their order (in P21 letter B above GT, in P54 letter T above GB).

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Watermark P21A

Watermark	3 crescents
Selenometrie in mm	xz: 65, xy: 19
Countermark	crown with a pointed top / B / GT
Source	A Wn Mus.Hs._1058_3_fol44v43r38v37r

watermark	countermark	sheet

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Twinmark P21B

Watermark	3 crescents
Selenometrie in mm	xz: 68, xy: 18
Countermark	crown with a pointed top / B / GT
Source	A Wn Mus.Hs._1058_3_fol45v46r51v52r

twin watermark	twin countermark	twin sheet

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Copyists and works
Copyists using paper P21	WK71A, WK71G
Scores written on paper P21	Gassmann_18075, Gazzaniga_1058
Staff ruling on paper P21	10/184N, 10/c.189

Short titel	Gassmann_18075
Composer	Gassmann, Florian Leopold
Title	I rovinati
Dating of manuscript	1772
Shelfmark	Mus.Hs.18075 (Austrian National Library, Vienna)
Profile	Gassmann_18075

Short titel	Gazzaniga_1058
Composer	Gazzaniga, Giuseppe
Title	La locanda
Dating of manuscript	1772
Shelfmark	Mus.Hs.1058 (Austrian National Library, Vienna)
Profile	Gazzaniga_1058

Rastrum ID	10/184N
Distances between staves(DS)	10+_10.5_10+_10_11_10.5_10+_11-_10.5 (mm)
Scores	Gassmann_18075, Gassmann_18075
Date of use	1770 - 1775

Rastrum ID	10/c.189
Distances between staves(DS)	(mm)
Scores	Gassmann_18075, Gazzaniga_1058
Date of use	1761 - 1774

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21939/47acg6
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Last edited: 04.03.2025
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Paper and Copyists in Viennese Opera Scores / Paper / P21, last edited 04.03.2025,
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