A Timeline history of the Violin Bow - from c. 1600 - 1800
... the sources in detail ...
Michel Corrette - Frontispiece from L'Ecole d'Orpheé (1738)
A detailed discussion of this bow hold is to be found in the analysis of Corrette's treatise, L'Ecole d'Orpheé. Notice the unusual (certainly by today's standards) position of the little finger.