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Add MS 5228
- Record Id:
- 032-002837481
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002837481
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023574823.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5228
- Title:
- Sketches and notes by Albrecht Dürer
- Scope & Content:
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A volume of sketches and notes by Albrecht Dürer, comprising mainly studies of the human figure and proportions, with some geometric and architectural perspective drawings included at the end (ff. 191v-219v).
The two flyleaves at the beginning of the manuscript contain a detailed typewritten table of contents compiled by Walter L. Strauss in November 1967, with notes on any watermarks visible on the sheets of paper.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002837481
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002837481
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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230 paper leaves, mounted on guards
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5228 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German, Middle High
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century-Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to consult this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: the overall dimensions of the volume are approximately 290 x 210 mm. The individual leaves are of varying sizes.
Foliation: ff. 220 + 10 (single blank unfoliated leaves after ff. 1, 129, 132, 177 and 206, and five after f. 64). Plus four unfoliated flyleaves, two at the beginning and two at the end. The two flyleaves at the beginning of the manuscript contain a typewritten table of contents and notes on the watermarks on the paper.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Black morocco with Albrecht Dürer's monogram 'AD' and 'Teekeninge 1637' stamped in gold on the front cover.
- Custodial History:
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Albrecht Dürer (b. 1471, d. 1528), artist: sketches and notes by his hand.
(According to Conway (Literary Remains (1889), p. 168), the five volumes of Dürer drawings (Add MS 5218, 5228-5231) may have belonged to Wilibald Pirckheimer (b. 1470, d. 1530), Dürer's patron, before being passed to the Imhof family and then to the Earl of Arundel. 'Some thirty or forty years ago,' Conway noted, 'a letter was found in the Record Office, which contained an account of the origin of the volumes; but the letter was not copied, or, if copied, both copy and reference were lost.')
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions made to the Department of Manuscripts since the Publicatino of Mr. Ayscough's Catalogue in 1782 (unpublished manuscript, 1832), XXI, f. 269r.
A. von Zahn, 'Die Dürer-Handschriften des Britischen Museums', Jahrbücher für Kunstwissenschaft, 1 (1868), 1-22.
William Martin Conway, Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer, with transcripts from the British Museum manuscripts and notes upon them by Lina Eckenstein (Cambridge: University Press, 1889), pp. 165, 167-70, 209, 213-14, 216, 219, 222-24, 232-36, 239-42, 251, 277, 279.
Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog: Ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen, mit 190 Abbildungen und 52 Tafeln (Vienna: Verlag Gilholfer & Ranschburg, 1932) [edition].
Dürer: Schriftliche Nachlaß, ed. by Hans Rupprich, 3 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1956) [edition].
Walter L. Strauss, The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, 6 vols plus supplement (New York: Abaris Books, 1974), II, pp. 532, 538, 540; VI, pp. 2817-25, 2830-33, 2874-75, 2884, 3170 [edition].
John Rowlands, 'Prints and Drawings', in Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum, ed. by Arthur MacGregor (London: British Museum Press, 1994), pp. 245-62 (p. 255).
- Exhibitions:
- Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist, National Gallery, London, 20 November 2021 - 27 February 2022
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)