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Detailed record for Additional 33733
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| Title |
The Triumphs of Charles V |
| Origin |
Italy or Netherlands, S. |
| Date |
c. 1556 - c. 1575 |
| Language |
Spanish |
| Script |
Humanistic |
| Artists |
A pupil or follower of Giulio Clovio (Juraj Klovic) (b. Grizane, Croatia 1498, d. Rome, 3 January 1578). |
| Decoration |
12 full-page miniatures in colours and gold, of episodes from the reign of Charles V: the Emperor enthroned among his enemies (Suleiman the Magnificent, Pope Clement VII, Francis I, the dukes of Cleves and Saxony, and the landgrave of Hesse) (f. 5); the Battle of Pavia, 1525 (f. 6); the death of the duke of Bourbon at the capture of Rome, 1527 (f. 7); Clement VII imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo treating for release, 1527 (f. 8); Suleiman and his army driven from the Siege of Vienna, 1529 (f. 9); the Spanish expedition to America, 1530 (f. 10); Charles entering Tunis, 1535 (f. 11); the duke of Cleves submitting to Charles V (f. 12); Egmont submitting to Charles V, 1546 (f. 13); the duke of Saxony submitting to Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg, 1547 (f. 15); the surrender of the German cities (f. 16); the landgrave of Hesse kneeling in submission before the emperor among clergy and courtiers, 1547 (f. 17). 13 cartouches in colours and gold, of masks, shells, gemstones, grotesques, architectonic decoration and all'antica elements (ff. 4v, 5v, 6v, 9v, 13v, 15v, 16v), and architectonic decoration (f. 12v, 17v), floral motifs (ff. 7v, 10v, 11v) and gemstones (f. 8v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
200 x 290 (miniatures 180 x 260) |
| Official foliation |
Part of an album of ff. 18. These parchment leaves foliated as '4'-'13', '15'-17'. |
| Form |
Parchment leaves bound in an album. |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Purple velvet of Charles Lewis, c. 1816, in a case of dark blue morocco, velvet-lined, with an early nineteenth-century magnifying glass recessed into it. |
| Provenance |
Philip II, king of Spain (b. 1527, d. 1598): the present leaves are said to have been taken by a French officer from the royal library at the Escorial Palace, Madrid (f. 2).
Monsieur Trochon, art dealer, of rue Caumartin, Paris: purchased from him by Woodburn in December 1815 (f. 2).
Samuel Woodburn (b. 1785/6, d. 1853), London art dealer: purchased from him by Thomas Grenville before 1817 (f. 2).
Thomas Grenville (b. 1755, d. 1846), politician and book collector: his notes and descriptions (ff. 1-3) and slips pasted onto ff. 4-17; bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1847.
Transferred to the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum in 1890. |
| Notes |
Italian cuttings.
The miniatures of the present leaves are after a set of commemorative engravings published by Hieronymus Cock (b, c. 1510, d. 1570) in Antwerp in 1556. The drawings for the series were provided by Maerten van Heemskerck and engraved by Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert (b. 1522, d. 1590).
f. 14, a drawing of the duke of Saxony submitting to Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg by Maerten van Heemskerck (b. 1498, d. 1574) and dated 1554 which was added to the volume in 1871 is no longer bound with the present leaves and is now British Library, Department of Printed Books, G. 2674*, pl. 10. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 96.
Rev. T. F. Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron, 3 vols (London: Shakspere Press, 1817), I, pp. clxxxviii-cxciv.
W. Stirling-Maxwell, The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles V: Designed by Martin Heemskerck in M.D.L.V. and Now Illustrated with Portraits, Prints and Notes (London and Edinburgh: privately printed for the editor, 1870), p. xxi.
John W. Bradley, The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist: with Notices of his Contemporaries and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century (London: Quaritch, 1891), pp. 275-89, pls. 13 and 14.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 305.
Edward Miller, Prince of Librarians: The Life and Times of Antonio Panizzi of the British Museum (London: Andre Deutsch, 1967), pp. 161, 174, 186.
A.N.L. Munby, Connoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures 1750-1850 (Oxford, 1972), p. 80, fig. 11 [f. 15].
Edward Miller, That Noble Cabinet: a History of the British Museum (London: Andre Deutsch, 1973), pp.165-66.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), p. 78, pl. 68.
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills, 1983), no. 18, figs. 18a-c, f and pl. 23.
Europa und der Orient: 800-1900, ed. by Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (Berlin: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1989), no. 7/26 [exhibition catalogue].
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 211.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), pp. 108, 112 fig. |
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f. 4
Plain leaf |
f. 4v
Cartouche |
f. 5
Charles V enthroned among his enemies |
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f. 5v
Cartouche |
f. 6
The Battle of Pavia |
f. 6v
Cartouche |
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f. 7
The death of the duke of Bourbon |
f. 7v
Cartouche |
f. 8
Clement VII imprisoned |
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f. 8v
Cartouche |
f. 9
Suleiman and his army driven away |
f. 9v
Cartouche |
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f. 10
The Spanish expedition to America |
f. 10v
Cartouche |
f. 11
Charles entering Tunis |
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f. 11v
Cartouche |
f. 12
The submission of the duke of Cleves |
f. 12v
Cartouche |
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f. 13
The submission of Egmont |
f. 13v
Cartouche |
f. 15
The submission of the duke of Saxony |
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f. 15v
Cartouche |
f. 16
The surrender of the German cities. |
f. 16v
Cartouche |
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f. 17
The submission of the landgrave of Hesse |
f. 17v
Cartouche |
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