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Add MS 8489

Record Id:
032-002029361
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029361
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8489
Title:

NOTES on antiquities and paintings, libraries and art collections in Rome; circa 1696 (see Memoria at ff. 147-147v). Italian. The MS. includes: - (a) ff. 5-6v, a list of painting in Roman Churches; - (b) f. 32, list of works of art, MS. and book holdings in the Library of San Pietro (now Vatican Library), mentioning among other things the library of the Dukes of Urbino and MSS. from Martin Luther; - (c) ff. 33-50v, brief descriptions of other Italian towns; - (d) ff. 51-60v, description of paintings and frescoes in the Vatican Palace; - (e) ff. 63-67v, 69-85, description and prices of ancient medals and coins; - (f) ff. 68-70, description of paintings by Pietro da Cortona in the Barberini Palace (1633-1639); - (g) ff. 90-93, list of Roman oil lamps and other antiquities in the studio of the Roman antiquarian, collector and bibliophile Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613-1696), entitled 'Musaeum Bellori' and dated 1695 (f. 95v); - (h) ff. 104-118, anonymous tract on the foundation of Rome; - (i) ff. 119-134v, notes from a book by the Jesuit Father Francesco Eschinardi (1623-1703), probably from the Espositione della Carta Topografica Cingolana dell'Agro Romano... (Rome: Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1696; B.L. copy 759.b.2); - (l) ff. 135-138, notes from the Giornale de Letterati, 1668-1675; - (m) ff. 143-144v, description of the pyramid of Caius Cestius in Rome, restored in 1663; - (n) ff. 145-154, lists of paintings in the Farnese and Barberini palaces. Detailed table of contents (ff. 1-1v) added later. Old shelfmarks in black ink '266' (lower left corner of front pastedown) and 'CCLXVI' (in fifth spine compartment): identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 266 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 7. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '598' in pencil in front pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, together with Add. 8490-8501, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 598 (part).

Paper; ff. 177+ii, plus four unfoliated blanks after f. 1, one after ff. 21, 22, two after f. 118; ff. 88-89 with upturned writing. Composite volume. Old foliation in ink '1-182' (ff. 3-177), including blanks, missing leaves foliated '86-87'. 290 x 210mm. Several Italian hands. Late 17th- early 18th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th- early 18th cent.

Antiquities: Art. Miscellaneous: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Notes on antiquities, paintings, libraries and art collections in Rome: circa 1696: Ital.

includes:

  • f. 32 Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Rome; Vatican Library: Summary listing of the Vatican library: circa 1696: Ital.
  • ff. 63-67v, 69-85 Medals: Descriptions and prices of ancient medals and coins: circa 1696: Ital.
  • ff. 90-93 Bellori Museum; Rome: List of oil lamps and other antiquities in the Museum: 1695: Ital.
  • ff. 104-118 Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Anonymous treatise on its foundation: circa 1696: Ital.
  • ff. 119-134v Francesco Eschinardi, Jesuit; Professor of mathematics and physics: Notes from his Espositione della Carta Topografica Cingolana dell'Agro Romano (Rome, 1696): circa 1696: Ital.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1691
End Date:
1701
Date Range:
c 1696
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 598, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Marefoschi family; of Rome: Owned (MS. 266).

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bellori Museum, Rome
Eschinardi, Francesco, Jesuit, Professor of mathematics and physics
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Marefoschi, Family
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Vatican Library, Rome
Places:
Rome, Italy