Notes:

The Medici family coat-of-arms is inlaid with pearl on the original finger board.

Violins at Florence, Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, October, 1946, Chicago

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"The set-up with regard to the tuning pegs, fingerboard and bridge, may well bethat made by Bartolomeo Bimbin in 1793 on the occasion of a radical restoration of the instrument which included the reduction of the dimensions of the body by removal of a central section along with a minor dimunition ot the outline in the upper and lower bouts through the removal of the border together with the purfling and successively reapplied without the use of internal reinforcements."

The Amatis' DNA, Fausto Cacciatori, Bruce Carlson & Carlo Chiesa, the Amatis' DNA: A Dynasty of Stringed Instrument Makers in Cremona, Cremona

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"Finally, the construction date of the instrument has been anticipated by a few years from that indicated on the label (1645-1650, instead of 1660) on the basis of the stylistic considerations and confirmed by the fact that the year is marked on a small rectangle of paper applied to the label and, therefore, is not an original part of it, although the modification must have been effected in the first years of the instrument's existence, given that the date 1660 is already registered in the inventory of 1700."

The Amatis' DNA, Fausto Cacciatori, Bruce Carlson & Carlo Chiesa, the Amatis' DNA: A Dynasty of Stringed Instrument Makers in Cremona, Cremona