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Add MS 5230
- Record Id:
- 032-002837483
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002837483
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023574825.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5230
- 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.
The second flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript contains a handwritten table of contents.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002837483", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 5230: Sketches and notes by Albrecht Dürer" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002837483
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002837483
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5230 (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 330 x 240 mm. The individual leaves are of varying sizes.
Foliation: ff. 196. Plus five flyleaves, three at the beginning and two at the end (both f. 1r and the first of the two flyleaves at the end are numbered 'iii', possibly in reference to this being the third of the four volumes acquired together).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Black morocco with Albrecht Dürer's monogram 'AD' and 'Schriften 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, 5228-31) 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. 29, 47, 156, 165, 167-72, 176, 190-91, 194-96, 199, 202, 207, 209, 211, 213-22, 225, 233, 251, 263, 274-79.
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].
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).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)