Ganassi Fontegara Numbered (GFN)

A system for precisely locating items in Fontegara to facilitate research, analysis, and practical use of its contents.

Introducing GFN: A catalogue number for Fontegara

GFN stands for Ganassi’s Fontegara Numbered

Computation of:

1. Persons, instruments and books in the frontispiece
2. Fingerings
3. Embellishments contained in the Regole
4. Other examples of embellishments

Total: 2855 items in 158 pages (leaving aside the 175 hand-written cadences contained in the Fontegara book preserved in Wolfenbüttel. See below for a proposal of nomenclature).

Numbering system:

• A simple system from 1–2855 (GFN 2855 is actually GFN 288b: see errata below), without making distinctions about their location in the book or type of content (exception: the three part-books in the woodcut, numbered b1–b3, which were an afterthought). 
• Location: GFN numbers are normally located below the numbered item, except for a few cases in which this could result in problems of readability. In such cases, the GFN number appears on top of it: GFN 400, 899, 1274, 1277, 1318, 1367, 1376, 1634, 1680, 1682, 1719 [cont.], 1727 [cont.], 1851, 2147, 2148, 2150, 2153, and 2825.

GFN applied: localisation (GFN 1–2855)

1. Frontispiece:
   1.1. Instruments: viols GFN 1–3, lute GFN 4, recorders GFN 6–9, Futteral GFN 10, cornets GFN 11–12, p. 1
   1.2. Musicians: singer GFN 5, recorder players GFN 6–9, p. 1
2. Hexachord-based recorder fingerings: GFN 14–91, p. 4–7
3. Sette note di più: GFN 92–130, p. 8–9
   3.1. Recorder “B”: GFN 92–104, p. 8
   3.2. Recorder “A” (ornamental “A”, the trademark of the Schnitzer family): GFN 105–117, p. 9
   3.3. Recorder with single trefoil or clover mark (Rauch von Schrattenbach): GFN 118–130, p. 9
4. First diminution examples (essemplii del diminuir): GFN 131–138, p. 13–15. And two musical examples in chapter 13: GFN 139–140, p. 16 
5. Regole (GFN 141–2826):
   5.1. Regola 1: GFN 141–1030, p. 18–57
   5.2. Regola 2: GFN 1031–1859, p. 58–97
   5.3. Regola 3: GFN 1860–2671, p. 98–137
   5.4. Regola 4: GFN 2672–2826, p. 138–149
6. Second diminution examples (Riporto dele regole): GFN 2827–2828, p. 151–152
7. Trills (Regola figvra[tiva]): GFN 2829–2854, p. 156

TOTAL: 2855 numbered items (GFN 2855 is actually GFN 288b. See errata on fontegara.com)