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902 Appendices D Strada’s Musaeum: The Index Sive Catalogus Several copies of Strada’s Index sive catalogus, the list of books which he intended to publish, and for which he attempted to obtain funding or other assistance from his various patrons, have been preserved: he moreover paraphrased it in several of his let- ters. A list of copies and paraphrases is given below. None of the fair copies of the complete Index are in Strada’s own hand: they were written by one of his sons or by a scribe he employed. The following transcription is based on the copy preserved in Cod. 10101 in the Öster- reichische Nationalbibliothek (item A1). This copy concludes with two items that were obviously added as an afterthought, but which are entered nonetheless in all the other complete versions known to me. This indicates that it can probably be considered as the ‘master copy’ from which later versions were derived. When relevant, variants in other versions have been noted. This copy also adds a long list of other manuscripts in Strada’s possession, that probably were not part of Strada’s publishing project, but which he may have considered selling to interested parties (not transcribed here). The item numbers in the transcription are added by the editor. A Fair copies (i.e. in Latin): A.1 Vienna, önb-hs, cod. 10101 This can be considered the mastercopy, and is probably the earliest version preserved: two items at the end were obviously added as an afterthought, yet these are included in all copies known to me. It is followed by a list of manuscripts in Strada’s possession, of which no other version is known to me. The sections on Serlio were published in PROMIS 1871. A.2 Vienna, önb-hs, cod. 10117 A.3 [? lost] A version sent to Elector August of Saxony appears to be lost; Strada’s ac- companying letter, dated Vienna, 4 January 1581 is preserved in Zittau, a copy is included in the Uffenbach-Wolffsche Briefsammlung in Hamburg (cf. doc. 1581-01-04); it is described as ‘un catalogo di libri scritti a mano, li quali sono tutti in casa mia, et la maggior parte sonno in punto per metter alla stampa, et non è copia fuori in luocho alcuno’. A.4 Firenze, asf, Carte e spoglie Strozziane, i, filza 308, ff. 64–69 This copy was sent to Jacopo Dani, secretary to Grand Duke Francesco i of Tuscany, and is preserved next to his accompanying letter, dated Vienna, 2 November 1581, idem, ff. 63–72 (doc. 1581-11-02), in which it is described as ‘questo inventario di questi libri (li quali tutti si anno da stampare)’. A.5 Vienna, sla, Magistratstestamente nr 104