All illustrations except the frontis, the reproduction from Buno’s Historia Universalis, and the list of ornaments are reproduced from Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Backs by Werner Neumann (Berlin, 1953), with the kind permission of the publisher Verlag der Nation.

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