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Add MS 16438
- Record Id:
- 032-002094202
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094202
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00005b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165144262.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16438
- Title:
- Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; Angelus Politianus, Orfeo
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A Venetian compilation of Italian Renaissance drama and poetry written for the Ariani family (a noble family of Venice).
ff. 1r-v: Niccolò da Correggio, Prologue to Cephalo;
ff. 2r-21v: Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo;
ff. 21v-28v: Angelo Ambrogini, (nicknamed 'Politianus'), Orfeo;
ff. 28v-30r: Anonymous poem, beginning, 'Felice cui ben sa che cosa e amore'.
This manuscript was written by one scribe: Alberto Maffei on 18 August 1497 as described in the colophon written in gold letters: 'Albertus Mapheanus hoc opus conscripsit die XVIII Aug. MCCCCLXXXXVI'.
Decoration:
A single illuminated folio with a small framed initial in gold and blue and an architectural frame showing an arch with two coloured columns, together with birds, two medallions perhaps depicting: Aurora and Cephalo, two medallions with deers, and in the lower border the arms of the Ariani family, on both sides the letters I and A (for Iacobo Ariani?). Beneath the arms, the letters S.P.Q.V are written on a gilded base (f. 2r). Rubrics in red and text in blue (ff. 1r-v). Small initials and rubrics in gold throughout. Catchwords written vertically on the inside margin.
The decoration can perhaps be attributed to the scribe, Alberto Maffei, who also worked on Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 34(see Marcon, Ornati di penna e di pennello, 1987, pp. 133-34).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094202
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094202
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165144262.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1497
- End Date:
- 1497
- Date Range:
- 1497
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 130 mm (text space: 45 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 30 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning).
Script: Humanistic minuscule.
Binding: Pre-1600 Venetian binding richly gold-tooled on brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. E. (Venice).
Provenance:
The Ariani family of Venice: written by Alberto Maffei in 1497: colophon cited above and coat of arms (f. 2r).
Luigi Maria Rezzi (b. 1785, d. 1857), former Jesuit, book collector of Rome and Librarian of the Corsini and Barberini libraries: inscribed (f. [vi] verso).
Bought by the British Museum from Payne and Foss, London booksellers, 7 January, 1847, with 54 other manuscripts (now Additional MSS 16404-16558).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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John William Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists, with reference to their works, and notices of their patrons, vol. 2 (London: Bermard Quaritch, 1887), p. 246.
Herbert P. Horne, The binding of Books: An essay in the History of Gold-tooled bindings (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trüber, 1894), pp. 71-72.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1864-60 (mss. 19720-24026) (London: British Museum, 1864), no. 16438.
Paul O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Alia itinera II. Great Britain to France, vol. 4 (Leiden: Brill, 1989), p. 100b.
Susy Marcon, 'Ornati di penna e di pennello: appunti su scribi-illuminatori nella Venezia del maturo umanesimo"' La Bibliofilia 89/2 (1987) 121-44 (pp. 133-34).
Marino Zorzi and Susy Marcon, Grado, Venezia, I Gradenigo. Catalogo della Mostra (Venice: Edizioni della Laguna, 2001), p. 355.
'Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 34'online at http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/170700 [accessed 16 June 2016].
Albert Derolez, 'Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Pre-1600 Manuscripts, Beinecke MS 585' (Yale University: 2008) http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms585.html [accessed 16 June 2016].
Domenico Giuseppe Lipani, ''Locosi intermedii' Lo spettacolo estense tra idea dell'antico e celebrazione del presente (1486-1487), Dionysus ex machine, 5 (2014) 192-214.
- Exhibitions:
- Orlando furioso 500 anni, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 24 September 2016 - 29 June 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)