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Add MS 10366
- Record Id:
- 032-002108166
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002108166
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x00031d
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10366
- Title:
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Piero della Francesca, De prospectiva pingendi,in a Latin translation by Matteo di Ser Paolo d'Anghiari
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains one of the four extant Latin copies of De prospectiva pingendi: a treatise on perspective written originally in Italian by Piero della Francesca (b. 1412, d. 1492) and translated by his friend Maestro Matteo di Ser Paolo d’Anghiari. The treatise, divided into three books, provides detailed, mathematical instructions, illustrated with numerous diagrams, for creating realistic perspective in illustrations. It was widely known among artists (such as Albrecht Dürer), but also in an academic milieu, where the copies of the Latin translation are thought to have circulated.
Contents:
ff. 1r-107r: Piero della Francesca's De prospectiva pingendi, 'Petrus Pictor Burgendis de Prospectiva Pingindi'.
Decoration:
Numerous diagrams in brown ink with geometrical figures illustrating the treatise.
One large initial in blue (f. 1r).
Numerous small initials in red and blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002108166
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002108166
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10366 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1475
- Date Range:
- c 1470 - 1492
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 220 mm (text space: 205 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 107 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600 (?), white parchment binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
'Sperandio Cavalchabo da Matuos', 1531: his name inscribed with the year 1531 (f. 107v).
Giovanni Battista Aleotti (b. 1546, d. 1636), Italian architect: his name inscribed, 'Jo[hannes] Bapt[ista] Aleotti Argentani, Archit[...]' (f. 1r). Aleotti notes that the has inscribed under Alfonso Il d'Este (b. 1533, d. 1597), Duke of Ferrara, and Pope Clement VIII (r. 1592-1605), Pope Paul V (r. 1605-1621), Pope Gregory XV (r. 1621-1623) and Pope Urban VIII (r. 1623-1644). Since the latter two names are additions to the original inscription, Aleotti appears to have owned the book at least from 1605 until 1623.
Richard Heber (b. 1773, d. 1833), book collector: his sale, 18 February 1836, lot 1310, purchased by the British Museum: noted twice on f [i]recto and in his annotated auction catalogue Bibliotheca Heberiana, 11(1836), p. 132.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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G. Mancini, 'L'Opera "De corporibus regularibus" di Pietro dei Franceschi detto della Francesca, usuprata da Fra' Luca Pacioli', Memorie della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 5th series, 14.7B (Rome: Accademia dei Lincei, 1916), pp. 446-580 (p. 481).
Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy, 1963), p. 931.
M. K., 'The Construction of a Vault over a Square Plan from De Prospectiva Pingendi (On the Perspective of Painting)', in Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, ed. by Jay A. Levenson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp. 242-43 (p. 242) [Exhibition catalogue].
Judith Veronica Field, 'Mathematics and the craft of painting: Piero della Francesca and perspective', in Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. by J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 82 n. 20.
Judith Veronica Field, 'Albert, the Abacus and Piero della Francesca's proof of perspective', Renaissance Studies, 11:2 (1997), 61-88 (p. 75, n. 27).
Judith Veronica Field, The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 97, fig. 5.16; 98, fig. 5.17; 100, fig. 5.19.
Judith Veronica Field, Piero Della Francesca: A Mathematician's Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 76; 135, ns. 15; 311, n. 33.
Piero della Francesca: De Prospectiva Pingendi, ed. by Giusta Nicco-Fasola (Firenze: Le Lettere, 2005), p. 48.
- Exhibitions:
- Piero Della Francesca, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emelia, 14 March 2015 - 14 June 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Piero Della Francesca, De prospectiva pingedi, 1412. Exhibited: Piero Della Francesca, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emelia, 14 March 2015 - 14 June 2015