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Detailed record for Royal 12 C III
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| Author |
Filippo Alberici ? |
| Title |
Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions |
| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
| Date |
c. 1507 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Humanistic cursive |
| Decoration |
14 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 8v, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19v, 20, 21, 21v, 22, 22v, 23, 23v, 24v). 1 half-page miniature in colours and gold (f. 7). One unframed miniature, beneath text (f. 6). Small marginal miniatures of emblems and symbols throughout, in colours and gold. |
| Dimensions in mm |
220 x 145 (135 x 105) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 25 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1968. The covers of a previous binding of gold-tooled brown leather are pasted inside the present ones. |
| Provenance |
Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel (b. 1512, d. 1580), magnate: inscribed with his name (f. 2).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 1852 (see The Lumley Library, 1956).
Charles II (b. 1630, d. 1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: inscribed, 'the king's book, anno dom. 1680' (f. 25v).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
ff. 1, 25 are parchment flyleaves.
1 blank parchment leaf after f. 1.
Contemporary index entitled, 'Index rerum quae ab Egy[p]tiis quondam hierogliphis scribebantur' (f. 2).
Incipit: 'Natura: Agnouerunt Phisici nullum ex elementis constare' (f. 3).
Written in an Italian or Italinate scribal hand. |
| Select bibliography |
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 22.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 216.
Corpus librorum emblematum: Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts, ed. by Sandra Sider and Barbara Obrist (McGill: Queen’s University Press, 1997), p. 77, no. 254.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 111 [exhibition catalogue]. |
| Last revised: 01 June 2011 |
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f. 4v
Symbols |
f. 5
Swords |
f. 7
Half-page miniature |
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f. 7
Half-page miniature |
f. 7v
Cow skull and duck |
f. 8v
Emblematic miniature |
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f. 9
Emblematic symbols |
f. 14
Spring |
f. 16
Winter |
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f. 17
Autumn |
f. 19v
Symbols |
f. 20
Emblems |
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f. 21
Emblematic miniature |
f. 21v
Symbols |
f. 22
Hellscape |
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f. 22v
Emblematic miniature |
f. 23
Emblematic miniature |
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