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Patricia M. Ranum, Vers une chronologie des œuvres de Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Les papiers employés par le compositeur: un outil pour l'étude de sa production et de sa vie (Baltimore, 1994), 60 pages; stapled paperback booklet. Initially published for $25, and available from Amazon.com for that price, plus shipping.
ISBN: 0-9660997-0-2
 

This book presents, notebook by notebook, the watermarks in the Charpentier autograph Meslanges, part of the grande réserve of the Music Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. As publication of the Minkoff facsimiles of these 28 autograph volumes moves to the final half-dozen volumes, the evidence in Patricia's book can be used by scholars to determine the approximate date of works. These watermarks can also be used by scholars of printed music paper, to link printshops and paper manufacturers.