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Add MS 33733
- Record Id:
- 040-002024629
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024628
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001443.0x0003a7
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- Add MS 33733
- Title:
- The Triumphs of Charles V
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The Triumphs of Charles V. A series of Spanish quatrains on each verso (one quatrain per folio), describing the content of 12 miniatures, in colours and gold, on the facing recto, illustrating episodes from the reign of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). Title added in the 19th-century rebinding (f. 1r): 'Giulio Clovio l'Aguila Triumphante de Carlos Quinto'. Incipit (f. 4v): 'L'Aguila muy triumphante y no vencida / De Carlos Quinto Emperador Romano / Nos muestra que esta gente sue rendida / Y como huyo sus uñas Solimano'. Colophon added in the 19th-century rebinding (f. 18r): 'Finis'. Folios 2r-3r carry notes on provenance by Thomas Grenville (1755-1846). Folio 14 is, since 1927, no longer bound with the volume, but was formerly a 1554 drawing by Maerten van Heemskerck, of the Duke of Saxony submitting to Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg. It had been added to the volume in 1871, pasted to f. [15*v], and is now British Library, Department of Printed Books, G. 2674*, pl. 10.
The miniatures have been attributed to Giulio Clovio (1498-1578), but are more likely by a pupil or follower of his (see Catalogue of Additions 1894, Backhouse 1979). More recently, they have been attributed to Simonzio Lupi,as they are dated to 1593, when Giulio Clovio (1498-1578) was dead, and sent to the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, as documented by new archival sources published in 2013 (see De Laurentiis, 'Nuove Miniature' (2014) and 'El Greco' (unpublished paper, 2010).
They are after a set of commemorative engravings published in Antwerp in 1556 by Hieronymus Cock (c. 1510-1570). The drawings for that series were provided by Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) and engraved by Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert (1522-1590).
The miniatures are:
1. (f. 5r): Charles V enthroned among his enemies (Suleiman the Magnificent, Pope Clement VII, Francis I, the Dukes of Cleves and Saxony, and the Landgrave of Hesse).
2. (f. 6r): The Battle of Pavia, 1525.
3. (f. 7r): The death of the Duke of Bourbon at the capture of Rome, 1527.
4. (f. 8r): Clement VII imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo treating for release, 1527.
5. (f. 9r): Suleiman and his army driven from the Siege of Vienna, 1529.
6. (f. 10r): The Spanish expedition to America, 1530.
7. (f. 11r): Charles entering Tunis, 1535.
8. (f. 12r): The Duke of Cleves submitting to Charles V.
9. (f. 13r): Egmont submitting to Charles V, 1546.
10. (f. 15r): The Duke of Saxony submitting to Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg, 1547.
11. (f. 16r): The surrender of the German cities.
12. (f. 17r): The Landgrave of Hesse kneeling in submission before the emperor among clergy and courtiers, 1547.
Additional Decoration:
Surrounding the quatrains, 13 cartouches in colours and gold, of masks, shells, gemstones, grotesques, architectonic decoration and all'antica elements (ff. 4v, 5v, 6v, 9v, 13v, 15v, 16v), and architectonic decoration (f. 12v, 17v), floral motifs (ff. 7v, 10v, 11v) and gemstones (f. 8v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024628
040-002024629 - Is part of:
- Add MS 33733-33791 : Grenville Manuscripts
Add MS 33733 : The Triumphs of Charles V - Contains:
- Add MS 33733, ff ii-iv : Case and magnifying glass for the Triumphs of Charles V
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12 parchment leaves, rebound in the 19th century into a parchment and paper codex; 18 folios
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- Languages:
- Spanish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1551
- End Date:
- 1580
- Date Range:
- c 1556-c 1575
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: original album: 200 x 290 mm (miniatures: 180 x 260 mm); full codex: 310 x 335 mm.
Foliation: ff. 18 (f. 14 is no longer bound with the volume; f. 1 is a modern parchment leaf; ff. 2-3 are modern paper leaves; ff. [5*-5***], [6*-6**], [7*-7**], [8*-8**], [9*-9**], [10*-10**], [11*-11**], [12*-12**], [13*-13**], [15*-15**], [16*-16**], [17*-17**] and [19] are unfoliated modern paper leaves; f. 18 is a modern paper leaf).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Purple velvet of Charles Lewis, c. 1816, in a case of dark blue morocco, velvet-lined, with an early nineteenth-century magnifying glass recessed into it. Also included is the key to the case.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy or Netherlands.
Provenance:
Philip II, King of Spain and Portugal (1527-1598): the present leaves are said to have been taken by a French officer from the royal library at the Escorial Palace, Madrid: notes by Thomas Grenville (pasted on f. 2r).
Monsieur Trochon, art dealer, of Rue Caumartin, Paris: purchased from him by Woodburn in December 1815: notes by Thomas Grenville (pasted on f. 2r).
Samuel Woodburn (1785/6-1853), London art dealer: purchased from him by Thomas Grenville before 1817: notes by Thomas Grenville (pasted on f. 2r).
Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector: his notes and descriptions (ff. 2r-3r) and slips, describing the miniatures' contents and principle characters, pasted onto ff. [6*r], [7*r], [8*r], [9*r], [10*r], [11*r], [12r*], [13*r], [15*r], [16*r], [17*r], and 18r; bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1847.
Transferred from the Departmen of Printed Books to the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum in 1890.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 96.
Rev. T. F. Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron, 3 vols (London: Shakspere Press, 1817), I, pp. clxxxviii-cxciv.
W. Stirling-Maxwell, The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles V: Designed by Martin Heemskerck in M.D.L.V. and Now Illustrated with Portraits, Prints and Notes (London and Edinburgh: privately printed for the editor, 1870), p. xxi.
John W. Bradley, The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist: with Notices of his Contemporaries and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century (London: Quaritch, 1891), pp. 275-89, pls 13 and 14.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 305.
Edward Miller, Prince of Librarians: The Life and Times of Antonio Panizzi of the British Museum (London: Andre Deutsch, 1967), pp. 161, 174, 186.
A.N.L. Munby, Connoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures 1750-1850 (Oxford, 1972), p. 80, fig. 11 [f. 15r].
Edward Miller, That Noble Cabinet: a History of the British Museum (London: Andre Deutsch, 1973), pp.165-66.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), p. 78, pl. 68.
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills, 1983), no. 18, figs 18a-c, f and pl. 23.
Europa und der Orient: 800-1900, ed. by Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (Berlin: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1989), no. 7/26 [exhibition catalogue].
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 211.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), pp. 108, 112 [image].
Elena De Laurentiis, 'La collezione di ‘Italian illuminated cuttings’ della British Library: nuove miniature di Simonzio Lupi da Bergamo, Giovanni Battista Castello il Genovese e Sante Avanzini', in Il codice miniato in Europa. Libri per la chiesa, per la città, per la corte: Atti del Convegno di studi (Padua, 2-4 December, 2010), ed. by Giordana Mariani Canova e Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese, (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2014), pp. 673-95 (pp. 680, n. 37, 683, pl. 4).
Elena De Laurentiis, 'El Greco, Giulio Clovio y la "maniera di figure piccole"', in Simposio Internacional El Greco 2014 (Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 21, 22 y 23 de mayo 2014; Toledo, Museo del Ejército, 24 de mayo de 2014), ed. by Fernando Marías (Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2015), pp. 46-61 (p. 60 n. 30).
Elena De Laurentiis, 'Magnifiche gesta. I Trionfi di Carlo V', Alumina: pagine miniate, 49 (2015), 6-19.
- Exhibitions:
- The Popes and the Unity of the Latin World, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, 21 May 2017 - 1 November 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)