Add MS 57529

FRANCIS WORMALD MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II. Genealogia Deorum; Italy, 14th cent. Latin. With illuminations in roundels depicting classical deities and heroes (male and female), popes, kings and emperors, as portrait heads, full-length figures or participating in military or allegorical scenes. See J. Zahlten, 'Hercules Wirtembergicus', Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Würtemberg, 18 (1981), pp. 7-46. Folios. ii-viii carry extensions to the main series in a 17th-century hand, with some pen drawings and tinting in brown. Later [18th-century?] painting of a naturalistic plant (f. 10). Small painted arms consisting of a blue cartouche trimmed in red, bearing three silver stars and a gold diagonal band with a black wing (f. 1). Wormald's ownership inscription inside upper board, with earlier nos '46' and '2527'. Formerly Phillipps MS. 10417.

Vellum and paper; ff. 10+ix. 430 x 305mm. Paper pastedowns and nine paper flyleaves to rear. Gatherings (2), i2, ii8. Script is an Italian 'as' glossularis. 18th-century (?) binding of brown leather over card, with gilt tooling and arms (central shield bearing unicorn, set on another quartered with knotwork and two lions rampant), enclosed by a helm and chain of office with scallop shells and pendant carrying an angel, in central roundels on both boards. Boards lined with fragments of printed texts in Latin and French.

History: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Genealogies: Genealogia Deorum: 14th cent.: Lat.