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Royal MS 12 C III
- Record Id:
- 040-002106716
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0002c8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 C III
- Title:
- Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
- Scope & Content:
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A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (a few emblems are actually taken from Horapollo). Beg. 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum ex elementis constare'. By way of title on f. 1 is written 'Secretum meum mlhi' between the initials G and R ?.
Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).Incipit: 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum ex elementis constare' (f. 3).Written in an Italian or Italinate scribal hand.
Decoration:
14 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 8v, 14r, 15r, 16r, 17r, 19v, 20r, 21r, 21v, 22r, 22v, 23r, 23v, 24v). 1 half-page miniature in colours and gold (f. 7r). One unframed miniature, beneath text (f. 6r). Small marginal miniatures of emblems and symbols throughout, in colours and gold.
f. 14r, Spring, with Apollo in his chariot, a cupid, and a sleeping boy in an enclosed garden.
f. 16r, Winter, with Neptune in his sea-chariot, driven by a dolphin, and Eolus depicted as an old man.
f. 17r, Autumn, with a woman (Diana?) picking apples.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106716 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 C III : Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0936]/040-002106716
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment manuscript
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_12_C_III (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1502
- End Date:
- 1512
- Date Range:
- c 1507
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm (text space: 135 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 25 + iv (the unfoliated flyleaves are 4 paper leaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end; ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves, 1 blank leaf after f. 1).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1968. The covers of a previous binding of gold-tooled brown leather are pasted inside the present ones.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel (b. 1512, d. 1580), magnate: inscribed with his name (f. 2r).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2r); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 1852 (see The Lumley Library, 1956).
Charles II (b. 1630, d. 1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: inscribed, 'the king's book, anno dom. 1680' (f. 25v).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 22.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 216.
Corpus librorum emblematum: Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts, ed. by Sandra Sider and Barbara Obrist (McGill: Queen’s University Press, 1997), p. 77, no. 254.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 111 [exhibition catalogue].
Sonja Drimmer, 'The Hieroglyphs of Kingship: Itay's Egypt in Early Tudor England and the Manuscript as Monument', Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome,59/60 (2014/15), pp. 255-83.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)