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Stowe MS 1016
- Record Id:
- 040-001953871
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00022a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173582.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 1016
- Title:
- Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge (in the third recension); Fabius Victor, De xiv urbis regionibus; Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3v: Roman Calendar;
ff. 4r-245r: Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge, in the third recension;
ff. 246r-253v: Fabius Victor (also known as Publius), De xiv urbis regionibus;
ff. [254r-269v]: Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis;
ff. [270r-271v]: Index of inscriptions.
Decoration:
Full-page calendar in colours and gold (ff. 1r-3v). Headings in panels with text in gold or colours, some in the form of headstones or sarcophagi (ff. 15r, 18v, 25r, 25v, 27v, 29v, 30r, 49v, 67v, 78v, 91v, 92r, 93r, 95v, 97v, 99r, 99v, 100r, 114v, 116v, 117v, 119v, 120r, 121r, 123r, 124r, 127r, 133r, 138r, 138v, 148r, 151r, 170r, 180r, 180v, 181v, 194r, 195r, 237r, 237v, 238r, 238v, 240v). Rubrics in gold or colours. Feather, leaf or other decoration as line-fillers, or as a snake (f. 224r). Large faceted initial (f. [254]). From f. 246r, initials in gold or colours.
The transcription and illumination of this manuscript has been attributed to Bartolomeo Sanvito; his foliation in arabic numerals in red ink (ff. 1-245).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953870
040-001953871 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 1016-1063 : CLASS XXIII.ANTIQUITIES, WITH COLLECTIONS ON ANTIQUARIAN AND KINDRED SUBJECTS, CATALOGUES AND EXTRACTS OF MSS, ETC.
Stowe MS 1016 : Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge (in the third recension); Fabius Victor, De xiv urbis regionibus; Marcus Valerius Probus, De… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0023]/036-001953870[0001]/040-001953871
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173582.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1497
- End Date:
- 1507
- Date Range:
- c 1502
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 145 mm (text space: 175 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 272 (+ 1 foliated parchment flyleaf (f. ii; the inside of the front board is f. i) and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end). Original foliation in arabic numerals (ff. 1-245).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Pre-1600. Original early 16th-century gold-tooled brown goatskin, with replaced spine; gilt and gauffered edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy (possibly Padua).
Provenance:
Written by Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518): note referring to two inscriptions found in his hand (ff. 223v-224r); his foliation also in red in Arabic numerals '1-245'.
John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: named in the inscription by James West: 'I bought this very curious Book out/ of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers.' (f. ii recto).
Sir Joseph Jekyll (bap. 1662, d. 1738), lawyer and politician, brother-in-law of Somers: named in the inscription by James West on f. ii recto (as cited above).
James West (b. 1703, d. 1772), politician and antiquary: inscribed with his name and the date 28 February 1738 on f. ii recto (as cited above).
Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale; see inscription by Thomas Astle on f. ii recto (cited below).
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: signed 'Doctor Askew purchased this M.S. in the year [ ] and I bought it at the sale of the Doctor's MSS. March 12th 1785 Thomas Astle' (f. ii recto).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 3 No. 53' (f. i verso) corresponding to his catalogue; see O’Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis (1818-1819).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: a descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Stowe Library (Buckingham, 1818–1819).
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, pp. 660-61.
James Wardrop, The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460-1560 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), pp. 28-29, 51; pl. 25.
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), pp. 105 n. 2, 109.
Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt, ‘Lauro Padovano und Leonardo Bellini als Maler, Miniatoren und Zeichner’, Pantheon: Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst, 47 (1989), 49-82.
Dizionario biografico dei miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Bonnard, 2004), p. 1040.
Adolfo Tura, Fra Giocondo & les textes français de géométrie pratique, Hautes Études Médiévales et Modernes, 93 (Geneva: Droz, 2008), p. 37 n. 95.
A. C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, ed. by Anthony R.A. Hobson and Christopher de Hamel (Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophile, 2009), no. 111 [with additional bibliography].
- Exhibitions:
- Aldo Manuzio. Il rinascimento di Venezia, Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice, 19 March 2016 - 19 Jun 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)