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Sp Spitze (point of the bow), probably in Paul David's hand.

Probably Paul David's pencil markings.

'3 fort': David's marginal instruction to remove the 3 on the first d'' on this stave.

David seems to indicate double stops on the third note of each triplet.

This is probably Paul David's fingering.

Spgd Springend (springing). Although this is in lead pencil, it is certainly in F. David's hand.

This mark, included in David's 1864 Violinschule ii, 37 is described as meaning 'mit der Spitze des Bogens aufschlagen/ to hit with the point of the bow'. This stroke is described by Spohr in his 1833 Violinschule as fouetté.

Not F. David's fingering; probably, along with most of the lead pencil markings in this piece, his son Paul's.

These marks apparently indicate vibrato. They are, as far as I know, the only instance, apart from those in his 1864 Violinschule, where they are printed in any of David's compositions or editions.

Here David has replaced a printed 1 with 2.

The marginal line and the instruction '2 fort' (the 2 has been cut off on the scan) refer to the line and deletion of the fingering on a in the second bar of the stave, presumably because it is self evident.

Pencil alterations have been erased here and in the next three staves.

'Simile' and a series of continuation lines over the next two staves have been erased here.

Probably Paul David's writing

The additional pencil f appears to be Ferdinand David's.

David has changed a 1 (reinforcing the printed marking) to a 2 here. This seems to be one of only two places in this piece where his blue crayon fingering does not merely repeat a printed fingering (where there is one). His habit of duplicating printed fingerings may be related to deteriorating eyesight in his later years.