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Add MS 22333
- Record Id:
- 040-002034810
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034808
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000197.0x00039f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165146724.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22333
- Title:
- Gherardo Cibo, Paintings of flora of the Roman States
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A letter to Gherardo Cibo from Pietro Andrea Mattioli (b. 1501, d. 1577) of Sienna, physician physician to Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, praising his work;
f. 3r-v: Index of plants;
ff. 3r-63: Gherardo Cibo (b. 1512, d. 1600), Paintings of flora of the Roman States. Cibo, a botanist in Arcevia and nephew of Caterina Cibo, Duchess of Camerino, unlike most botanists, who relied on artists, illustrated the plants he collected. He was the first to develop the image of the botanist: in many illustrations the botanist is depicted at work, discovering, collecting and studying nature, emphasising the importance of studying specimens in their local environments. Cibo's is the oldest surviving herbarium (a collection of pressed and dried plants); he began collecting as early as 1532.
f. 58r: Antonio Cibo, son of Gherardo, designs for the vision of St. Augustine.
A companion manuscript, now Add MS 22332 contains Mattioli's Discorsi with further botanical illustrations by Gherardo Cibo.
Decoration:
63 full page framed botanical images in watercolour and gouache (on all rectos, ff. 4r-54r). Paintings and drawings of landscapes (ff. 59r, 64r, 65r), sea life (f. 66r), fruit (f. 60r) and flowers (f. 61r). A sketch for the vision of St Augustine (f. 58r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034808
040-002034810 - Is part of:
- Add MS 22332-22333 : COLOURED DRAWINGS of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Two volumes, the latter of which…
Add MS 22333 : Gherardo Cibo, Paintings of flora of the Roman States - Hierarchy:
- 032-002034808[0002]/040-002034810
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 22332-22333
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165146724.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1559
- End Date:
- 1584
- Date Range:
- c 1564-1584
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 340 x 225mm (text space: 315 x 210)
Foliation: ff. 1-66 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end, the first and last being pasted to marbled end-leaves + 15 unfoliated blank leaves, 1 following ff. 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 2 following f. 14, 1 following ff. 25, 30, 31, 33, 42, 52 and 57. ff. 3 and the following unfoliated leaf are in blue paper).
Script: Italian cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. 17th-century gold-tooled and stamped black leather binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central.
Provenance:
Painted by Gherardo Cibo (b. 1512, d. 1600): a sketch of the vision of St Augustine with an inscription stating that it was copied from designs by Cibo's son (‘figliuolo’), Antonio (f. 58r). In Add MS 22332 some of the drawings are dated 1564-1584 and there is a date of 1597 on f. 185 (rear past-down).
Marchese Giovanni Battista Costabili Containi and his grand nephew Marchese Giovanni Costabili Containi: their sale, 27 June 1850, lot 2127 (note on f. 1); bought by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), pp. 634-35.
E. Celani, 'Sopra un erbario di Gherardo Cibo conservato nella R. Biblioteca Angelica di Roma', Malpighia, 16 (1902) 181-226.
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, 'Gherardo Cibo: visions of landscape and the botanical sciences in a sixteenth-century artist', Journal of Garden History, 9.4 (1989), 199-216 (p. 201).
Arnold Nesselrath, Gherardo Cibo, alias Ulisse Severino da Cingoli: disegni e opere da collezioni italiane (Florence: S.P.E.S, 1989), pp. 211-22 [exhibition catalogue].
J. Bolten, 'Review: Gherardo Cibo, alias Ulisse Severino da Cingoli', Master Drawings, 28.2 (1990), fig. 2.
Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 166-70, fig. 11.
Erma Hermans, 'A 17th century Italian treatise on Miniature Painting and its Authors', in Historical Painting Techniques, Materials and Studio Practice, Papers from the Leiden Symposium, ed. by A. Wallert , E. Hermans and M. Peek, Leiden, 1995), pp. 48-57 (p. 53).
Pamela H. Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 42, 44, 45, figs 1.13-1.15.
Gherardo Cibo: Dilettante di Botanica e Pittore di 'Paesi', ed. by Giorgio Mangani e Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi (Ancona: Il lavoro editoriale, 2013), pls 1, 6-8, 12, 25, 134-68, p. 244.
Cristina Bellorini, World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany: Medicine and Botany (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), figs 3.2, 3.3, 3.11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)