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Record Id:

032-003876461

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Add MS 5243

Title:

"Regum Daniae effigies ex Aulaeis Croneburgicis maxima ex parte depictae". An album of drawings of Danish kings.

Scope & Content:

Pen and ink drawings of Danish Kings, starting with King Dan. I and concluding with King Christian IV. The volume formerly belonged to Olaus Wormius, whose autograph ('sum Olai Wormii') it bears on f. 1. The drawings are executed directly on the folios of the manuscript, mostly on both recto and verso. The original foliation in pen and ink can still be seen on recto and verso of all folios. The drawings are surrounded by epigrams in Latin attributed to Jonas Venusinus and inscriptions in Danish. On f. 1, a manuscript title page in Latin introduces the contents of the album as: "Regum Daniae effigies ex Aulaeis Croneburgicis maxima ex parte depictae […] Epigrammata Latina adjecta, sunt M. Jonae Venusini …" On the verso of f.1 is a manuscript list of 99 kings portrayed in the manuscript. Different from the rest of the manuscript are three engraved portraits of Danish kings interleaved among the folios of the manuscripts. These are:

f. 51*. Portrait of King Frederik I (r. 1533-34) in profile view facing left; engraving. Dimensions: 165 x 117 mm (sheet).

f. 52*. Portrait of King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway (r. 1559-1588), signed 'H. Goltzius sculp. G. Cornelij excud.'; engraving. Part of the lettering is written in pen and ink in Latin. Dimensions: 240 x 165 mm (platemark). Another impression of this print is in the British Museum (1854,0708.11).

n.n. (between f. 52* and f. 53). Portrait of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (r. 1588-1648), signed 'Simon de Pas sculpsit'; engraving. Dimensions: 315 x 195 mm (sheet). The small portraits in roundels around the portrait of the King have been cut out. An impression of the same print (including the roundel portraits) is in the British Museum (1848,0911.682).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Sloane Collection

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (62 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Danish
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 335 x 230 mm.

Material: paper.

Medium: ink, pencil, engraving.

Foliation: 54 numbered folios, plus several additional folios marked by an asterisk (ff. 17*, 27*, 28*, 51*, 52*), two unnumbered folios before f. 1 and one unnumbered folio between ff. 52* and 53, making a total of 62 folios.

Custodial History:

The manuscripts of Sir Hans Sloane were purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum in 1753.

Former External References:

Min. 141
Min. 178 (crossed out)
XXXIX.B

Source of Acquisition:

The Sloane Manuscripts were held by the British Museum Department of Manuscripts until 1973 after which they were transferred to the British Library.

Finding Aids:

Part of this description has been transcribed from the handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts, vol. 21 (1832), located in the Manuscripts Reading Room, where the volume is described as: ' “Regum Daniae Effigies ex Auloeis Croneburgicis depictae.” From Dan I. to Christianus IV. The figures are in number 98. accompanied by verses or Epigrams, in German and Latin; the latter stated to have been composed by M. Jonas Venusinus, and sculptured on the Cannon cast by Christian IV. There are no figures of Erick II, John, or Christian II. and those of Frederick I. Frederic II. and Christian IV. are engraved portraits. Small Folio, ff. 53.The volume formerly belonged to Olaus Wormius, whose autograph it bears.'

'Min. 178 (crossed out), 141' in the catalogue of Sir Hans Sloane's Library, Sloane MS 3972 C.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Goltzius, Hendrick, painter and engraver, 1558-1617
Passe, Simon de, 1591-1644
Sloane, Hans, Baronet, physician and collector, 1660-1753,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123196729,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77959
Wormius, Olaus, Rector of Copenhagen University, 1588-1654