Matanya Ophee Collection

"One of the world's largest collections of guitar music from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries....Highlights from the Ophee Collection include over five hundred first and early editions of major guitar composers including Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, and many others, as well as the only complete manuscript of the Dix Etudes by Giulio Regondi, discovered by Ophee in 1987. The collection also includes the personal scores and papers of Argentinian guitarist Domingo Prat (1886–1944), as well as a large amount of rare music for the Russian 7-string guitar from the 19th and 20th centuries." Maintained by Special Collections Research Center, University Libraries, Appalachian State University