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Detailed record for Stowe 1016
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| Author |
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Fabius Victor, Valerius Probus |
| Title |
Silloge, in the third recension (ff. 4-245), with calendar (ff. 1-3v), De xiv urbis regionibus (ff. 246-253v), De notis antiquis (ff. [254-269v]), and index of the locations of the inscriptions (ff. [270-271v]) |
| Origin |
Italy, N. (Padua?) |
| Date |
c. 1500- c. 1510, after 1502 |
| Language |
Latin with inscriptions in Greek |
| Script |
Humanistic |
| Scribe |
Bartolomeo Sanvito |
| Decoration |
Full-page calendar in colours and gold (ff. 1-3v). Headings in panels with text in gold or colours, some in the form of headstones or sarcophagi (ff. 15, 18v, 25, 25v, 27v, 29v, 30, 49v, 67v, 78v, 91v, 92, 93, 95v, 97v, 99, 99v, 100, 114v, 116v, 117v, 119v, 120, 121, 123, 124, 127, 133, 138, 138v, 148, 151, 170, 180, 180v, 181v, 194, 195, 237, 237v, 238, 238v, 240v). Rubrics in gold or colours. Feather, leaf or other decoration as line-fillers, or as a snake (f. 224). Large faceted initial (f. [254]). From f. 246, initials in gold or colours. |
| Dimensions in mm |
255 x 145 (175 x 90) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 272 (+ 2 unfoliated parchment leaves and numerous at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Original early 16th-century, with replaced spine. |
| Provenance |
Written by Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518): note referring to two inscriptions found in his hand (ff. 223v-224); his foliation also in red in Arabic numerals '1-245'.
John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: signed 'I bought this very curious Book out/ of the Library of Sir Joseph Jekyll. It formerly belonged to Lord Somers. (f. [ii]).
Sir Joseph Jekyll (bap. 1662, d. 1738), lawyer and politician, brother-in-law of Somers: inscription cited above.
West, James (1703-1772), politician and antiquary: inscribed as quoted above, on February 1738.
Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale ; see inscription cited below.
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: signed 'Doctor Askew purchased this M.S. in the year [ ] and I bought it at the sale of the Doctor's MSS. March 12/14 1785/ Thomas Astle' (f. [ii]).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 3 No. 53' (f. [i verso]) corresponding to his catalogue; see O’Conor 1818-1819.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. |
| Notes |
Original foliation, and ink foliation, which stops at f. 253. |
| Select bibliography |
James Wardrop, The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460-1560 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), pp. 28-29, 51, pl. 25.
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), pp. 105 n. 2, 109.
Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt, ‘Lauro Padovano und Leonardo Bellini als Maler, Miniatoren und Zeichner’, Pantheon: Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst, 47 (1989), 49-82.
Dizionario biografico dei miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Bonnard, 2004), p. 1040.
A. C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, ed. by Anthony R.A. Hobson and Christopher de Hamel (Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophile, 2009), no. 111 [with additional bibliography]. |
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f. 92
Panels |
f. 92
Plaque |
f. 116v
Epithet |
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f. 116v
Epithet |
f. 133
Panel |
f. 133
Panel |
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ff. 223v-224
Snake |
f. 224
Snake |
f. 237v
Snake |
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f. 237v
Snake |
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