Accession number
MS M.1106
Object title
Disegni de le ruine di Roma.
Display Date
ca. 1574-1575.
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 line
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.
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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