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Detailed record for Additional 60630, ff. 13-18, 39-42
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| Title |
Cuttings from a manuscript of Pope Innocent VIII |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Rome) |
| Date |
c. 1484 - c. 1492 |
| Artists |
Giuliano Amadei (documented in Florence 1446, d. in Lucca 1496). |
| Decoration |
10 borders of colours and gold, with a bar of burnished gold decorated with leaves, floral forms, urns, and bezants, and anthropomorphic (f. 18) and zoomorphic (f. 42) heads. |
| Dimensions in mm |
Various (see individual descriptions) |
| Official foliation |
Parchment cuttings, foliated as '13'-'18', and '39'-'42'. |
| Form |
Mounted parchment cuttings, kept in a box. Folios 39-42 are in double-sided window mounts. |
| Binding |
N/A |
| Provenance |
Innocent VIII (Cibo, r. 1484 - 1492), Italian pope and patron: inscriptions 'In(n)ocent' and 'Papa VIII', and peacocks (his emblem was the bird displaying) in related cuttings Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cutting It. 29 and Stockholm, National Museum, N. M. B. 1801, respectively (see Jonathan Alexander, ‘Fragments of an Illuminated Missal of Pope Innocent VIII’, Pantheon, 38 (1980), 377-82, reprinted in Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination (London: Pindar Press, 2002), pp. 213-34, 394.
Luigi Celotti (b. 1759, d. 1843), Italian dealer: his sale, 26 May 1825, part of lots 35, 36, 39, purchased for £7 7s, £9 5s and £21 by Manson, according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue (Christie's Archives, cat. no. 29, 1825).
William Young Ottley (b. 1771, d. 1836), writer on art and collector: his sale, 11 May 1838, lot 199 (ff. 13-18) and ?203 (ff. 39-42) (see Henry Shaw and Frederick Madden, Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to Seventeenth Centuries (London: William Pickering, 1833), nos. 32a and 32b, which are engraved reproductions of two borders from ff. 13-18 and f. 41, respectively, described as in the Ottley Collection; purchased by Sotheby for 16s and £1, respectively.
Samuel Sotheby (b. 1771, d. 1842), London auctioneer and book collector: he purchased lots 125, 136, 190, 199, 203, 205-209, 245, and 247 at the Ottley sale, and later sold some of their cuttings to Leopold de Rothschild.
Leopold de Rothschild (b. 1845, d. 1917), banker, thoroughbred race horse breeder, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England: his bookplate in album (Add. 60630, Old Covers), which originally contained cuttings and was kept at Ascott, near Wing, Buckinghamshire; inscribed 'L. H. II', 'Jacobean' room, and 'landing' case.
Purchased as 'The Ascott Album' by the British Library from the Rothschild family on 26 March 1979. |
| Notes |
Italian cuttings.
The present cuttings are boxed with Add. 60630, ff. 1-12 and 19-38. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 60630. To see the Ascott Album which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 60630, Old Covers.
Other cuttings and borders from service books of Innocent VIII are:
From his Benedictional (A.I.18): Cleveland, private collection (see Andrea de Marchi, 'Identità di Giuliano Amadei Miniatore', Bollettino d'Arte, 93/94 (1995), 119-58, no. 30) and Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, no. 9 (de Marchi, no. 31).
From his Missal (A.I.7): Add. 21412, f. 4; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cutting It. 29 (de Marchi, no. 29d); Chantilly, Musée Condè, ms. Divers IV. 346 (de Marchi, no. 29f); Former Hamburg, Ernst Hauswedell Collection (de Marchi, no. 29c); Holland, private collection (de Marchi, no. 29e); and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB. 1801 (de Marchi, no. 29a).
From unidentified manuscripts: Add. 21412, ff. 45-65, Add. 35254H; London, Ford Collection, RF12 (see The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998: the Ford Collection, 2 vols, (Leeds: The Walpole Society, 1998), I, p. 60); and Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, no. 59 (de Marchi, no. 32). |
| Select bibliography |
Henry Shaw and Frederic Madden, Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to Seventeenth Centuries (London: William Pickering, 1833), nos. 32a and 32b (ff. 13-18 and 41, respectively).
'Recent Acquisitions. Department of Manuscripts', British Library Journal, 7 (1981), p. 190.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1976-1980 (London: British Library, 1995), pp. 164-65.
The Sixtieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1998. The Ford Collection, 2 vols (Leeds): The Walpole Society, 1998, I, p. 60.
Sandra Hindman and others, Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2001), pp. 82 and 91 [exhibition catalogue].
Christopher de Hamel, The Rothschilds and their Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2005), pp. 13-14.
Anne-Marie Eze, Abbé Luigi Celotti (1759-1843): Connoisseur, Dealer, and Collector of Illuminated Miniatures (unpublished doctoral thesis, London: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2010).
Elena De Laurentiis and Emilia Anna Talamo, The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: an Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispa´nica; Dallas, Tex.: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, 2010), p. 337. |
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