Accession number:
MS M.1106
Title:
Disegni de le ruine di Roma.
Created:
Rome, Italy, ca. 1574-1575.
Binding:
16th-century brown morocco, richly tooled and painted, suggested by Wittkower to be French, earlier than the manuscript, ca. 1550; Ashby said French, perhaps Grolier, probably made for another manuscript; the binding has also been attributed to English execution of the early 1600s.
Credit:
Gift of the Giannalisa Feltrinelli Foundation, Ltd., in memory of the late Giannalisa Feltrinelli, 1997.
Description:
39 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 200 mm
Provenance:
Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) of Narford, Norfolk; Fountaine sale (London, Sotheby's, 11 June 1902, lot 738) to Pickering and Chatto; W.H. Corfield (bookplate on front pastedown); his sale (London, Sotheby's, 21 November 1904, lot 389) to C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate on front pastedown); his estate sale (London, Sotheby's, 29 November 1960, lot 149; Giannalisa Feltrinelli (Giannalisa Feltrinelli Collection, MS F.166); Giannalisa Feltrinelli Foundation, Ltd., 1978; deposited in the Library in 1979; gift of the Giannalisa Feltrinelli Foundation, Ltd., in memory of the late Giannalisa Feltrinelli, in 1997.
Notes:
Ms. written and illustrated in Rome, Italy, 1574-1575.
Decoration: 46 pen-and-ink drawings, each in an elaborate frame.
Artist: attributed in the past to Étienne Dupérac; now assigned to an anonymous Roman artist.
Script:
cursive
Language:
Italian
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