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Add MS 33790
- Record Id:
- 040-002024688
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024628
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001443.0x000384
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165148578.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 33790
- Title:
- Antonio Francesco Doni, La Lumiera (autograph manuscript)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains an autograph copy of La Lumiera, an Italian poem in fifty eight-line stanzas, written by Antonio Francesco Doni (b. 1513, d. 1574). The poem is a lament that mourns the ultimate fate of man and his failings in the world. It is preceded in the manuscript by a short letter from the author presenting the work to his patron, Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga (b. 1540, d. 1591), then prior of Barletta.
Contents:
f. 1r: an added note and description of the manuscript, written in the hand of Thomas Greville (b. 1755, d. 1846).
f. 2r: Title-page.
f. 3r: A letter from Antonio Francesco Doni, presenting the book to Gianvincenzo Gonzaga, Prior of Barletta, dated La Rocca di Monselice, 3 September 1567.
ff. 4r-17v: Antonio Francesco Doni, La Lumiera, an Italian poem in two parts.
ff. 2v and 3v are blank.
Decoration:
Decorated title-page (f. 2r). Ornamental initials and head-pieces in pen and ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024628
040-002024688 - Is part of:
- Add MS 33733-33791 : Grenville Manuscripts
Add MS 33790 : Antonio Francesco Doni, La Lumiera (autograph manuscript) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002024628[0057]/040-002024688
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 33733-33791
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165148578.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1567
- End Date:
- 1567
- Date Range:
- 1567
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm (written space: 140 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 17 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 1 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive, written in the hand of Antonio Francesco Doni.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Grenville gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; blue textile bookmark attached to spine; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Monsélice, Italy.
Provenance:
Antonio Francesco Doni (b. 1513, d. 1574), Italian writer and translator: wrote and presented the manuscript to his patron Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga in 1567; his dedication (f. 2r).
Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga (b. 1540, d. 1591), Italian prior of Barletta and later cardinal: presented to him by the author in 1567; the dedication (f. 2r).
Thomas Grenville (b. 1755, d. 1846), politician and book collector: formerly no. XIX in his library (f. 1v); his added note and description (f. 1r); bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1847.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 110.
J. T. Payne and H. Foss, Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; or bibliographical notices of rare and curious books, forming part of the library of the Rt. Hon. T. Grenville (London: William Nicol, 1842-1872), p. 206.
Fredi Chiappelli, 'Un poema inedito e sconosciuto di Anton Francesco Doni', La Rassegna della letteratura italiana, 58 (1954), 561-56
Cecilia Ricottini Marsili-Libelli, Anton Francesco Doni: scrittore e stampatore (Florence, 1960), p. 232.
Paul F. Grendler, Critics of the Italian World, 1530-1560: Anton Francesco Doni, Nicolò Franco & Ortensio Lando (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), p. 64.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 80.
Giorgio Masi and Carlo Alberto Girotto, 'Le carte di Anton Francesco Doni', in L’Ellisse. Studi storici di letteratura italiana, III (2008), 171-218 (p. 193).
Douglas Biow, In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-century Italy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), p. 16.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)