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Detailed record for Additional 15477
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| Author |
Guido delle Colonne |
| Title |
Historia destructionis Troiae |
| Origin |
Italy, N. (Venice) |
| Date |
2nd half of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
137 mostly bas-de page miniatures in ink with colour wash. 9 historiated initials in colours with gold. Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red or in red with pen-flourishing in purple. Paraphs in red or blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
420 x 280 (295 x 200) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 58 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Count Justin de MacCarthy-Reagh (b. 1744, d. 1811): sale by De Bure, Paris, January 1817, lot 4267.
Presented by Edward Vernon Utterson (b. 1775, d. 1856), lawyer and antiquary, on 17 February 1845 (a note on f. [ii]. |
| Notes |
Guido delle Colonne, judge of Messina, began this work at the request of Mathaeus da Porta, Archbishop of Salerno. It was completed after da Porta's death in November 1287, according to the epilogue. |
| Select bibliography |
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, 43.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850). 1845, p. 8.
Guido de Columnis, Historia Destructionis Troiae, ed. by Nathaniel Edward Griffin (1936, repr. New York: Kraus, 1960), p. xiv [an edition of the text].
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, III: Manuscripts in English Libraries, 2 vols. (London, 1953), p. 31.
Hugo Buchthal, Historia Troiana: Studies in the History of Mediaeval Secular Illustration, Studies of the Warburg Institute, 32 (London: Warburg Institute, 1971), p. 66.
Annegrit Schmidt, 'Herkules in einer unbekannten Zeichnung Pisanellos: Ein Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Frührenaissance', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 17 (1975), 51-86.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, part 2 in two volumes (Berlin: Gerb. Mann, 1980), I, pls 188-89.
Marc-René Jung, La Légende de Troie en France au moyen age (Basel & Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996), p. 565.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. by C.olum Hourihane, 6 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), I, p. 440 |
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f. 6v
Jason |
f. 7
Jason slays the dragon and captures the golden fleece |
f. 34v
Battle with Achilles and Diomedes |
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f. 34v
Achilles and Diomedes |
f. 35v
Troilus and Cressida |
f. 49v
The Trojan horse |
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f. 49v
The Trojan horse |
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