

Many publications also received an impressed and raised seal when sold, and so those dates differ from, and may be many years after, the date of publication Ĭ - Date of the censorship office. Date of the censorship office. T - Date in the form of an impressed and raised seal (“timbro”) Date in the form of an impressed and raised seal (“timbro”) stamped on the sample deposited for publication rights.

The dates added in the online version of the Ricordi Numerical Catalogue are obtained from various sources, as specified by the letter accompanying the number: In addition, the prices of the works published by Ricordi, or at least available for sale, also are listed. The printed numerical catalogue contains the numerical sequence of the acquired works and the information essential for their identification from the so-called “big books” (“Libroni”) of Ricordi, the handwritten registers in which the acquired pieces were listed. Consisting in the assembly of the supplements to the catalogue released in a progressively numbered series beginning with number 29.841, the issues continue the numbering of the 1857 catalogue, and arrive at 43.025. Volume II: published in 1874, the frontispiece is dated 1858, the date of the earliest supplement. Volume I: published in 1857, it comprises the inventory numbers 1 to 29.840, and covers the years 1808-1857

“Catalogue” refers to the numerical catalogue of the editions, published by Tito di Giovanni Ricordi in two volumes:
