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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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