| Ref No | WIA GC/30058 |
| Title | Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von to Warburg, Aby 24/03/1925 |
| Writer | Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, styled ' Erly' |
| Place1 | Berlin-Steglitz, Arndtstrasse 30 |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 24/03/1925 |
| Format | typescript |
| Contents | thanks him for a letter and an article by Cassirer and Warburg's article [on Palazzo Schifanoia]; who knows how far the lowest band of images goes back in time, the journey of images into a diaspora shows many old features which were no longer understood; one did not know what to leave out and what to keep to assure the image kept its magic effect; lists one example, a phrase in Picatrix, 'the right nostril'; explains it with the help of Brahmin ritual books from Bali, which explain that the South is red, the North is black, therefore the right nostril is the nostril notifying the South; he cannot say much about [Otto] Weber; Weber had been ill for months, some of the people in the museum in Berlin, [H.] Ehelolf, [Bruno] Meissner, [E.] Ebeling are against him; he quarrelled with [Max?] Baron Oppenheim; Hornbostel's colleague [Curt] Sachs praises him as gentlemanly; requests research assistance, wants a good reproduction of the zodiac in 'Steinbuch' of Alfons X; on the apostle Peter and the keys to heaven symbolizing Aries; he has sent Warburg a copy of his 'Inversionen' ['Über optische Inversion'] |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/377 | Hornbostel; Erich Moritz von (25/02/1877-28/11/1935); Dr. | 25/02/1877-28/11/1935 |
| DS/UK/1364 | Sachs; Curt (29/06/1881-05/02/1959); Prof. Dr. phil. | 29/06/1881-05/02/1959 |