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Detailed record for Royal 6 E IX
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| Author |
Convenevole da Prato |
| Title |
Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina') |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Tuscany) |
| Date |
c. 1335-c. 1340 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
Pacino di Buonaguida, an illuminator active Florence, c. 1300- c. 1350 (see Labriola 2004). For his corpus and bibliography see Ada Labriola, 'Pacindo di Buonaguida', in Dizionario Biografico dei Miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milano: Bonnard, 2004), pp. 841-43 (p. 841). |
| Decoration |
47 miniatures in colours and gold with verses incorporated in them (ff. 1v, 2v, 4v-5, 6-9, 10v-13, 15, 19v-25, 27, 28v-30v). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with purple or blue pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
490 x 350 (355 x 240), in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 30 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; f. i is a medieval parchment flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Royal Library binding. |
| Provenance |
Robert of Anjou, king of Naples (b. 1277, d. 1343): probably the original copy presented to him by citizens of Prato, Tuscany, when the city placed itself under his protection (c. 1335-40); his arms (f. 2v), and portrait (f. 10).
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.
There are only two other known manuscripts containing the same text: Viennna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Samlung der kunstindustriellen Gegenstände, no. 10 and Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Magliabecchiana ci vii cod. 17.
Catchwords. |
| Select bibliography |
W. R. Tymms and M. D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XV.13.
[George Warner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1907-08), II, pls 39, 40.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 256.
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), I, pp. 159-60.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pls 39-40.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 124.
P. D'Ancona, La miniature italienne du Xe au XVIe siècle (Paris, 1925), p. 45.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, 4 vols, III: Manuscripts in English Libraries (London: The Warburg Institute, 1953), p. 195.
Rosy Schilling, 'Ein Gebetbuch des Michelino da Besozzo', Munchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 3 (1957) 65-80 (p. 79, n. 24).
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, 'Marino Sanudo und Paolino Veneto: Zwei Literaten des 14. Jahrhunderts in ihrer Wirkung auf Buchillustrierung und Kartographie in Venedig, Avignon und neapel', Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 14 (1973), 1-137 (pp. 98, 100, il. 95).
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, 'Frühe angiovinische Buchkunst in Neapel', in Festschrift Wolfgang Braunfels, ed. by Friedrich Piel and Jörg Träger (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1977), pp. 71-92 (pp. 71, 88, n. 1).
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 42.
A. G. Watson Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no. 876.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, part 2 in two volumes (Berlin: Gerb. Mann, 1980), II, p. 265, pl. 440, 569.
Convenevole da Prato, Regia carmina: dedicati a Roberto d’Angio`, re di Sicilia e di Gerusalemme, introduction and translation by Cesare Grassi, notes by Marco Ciatti and Aldo Petri, 2 vols (Prato: Gruppo Bibliofili Pratesa, 1982) [facsimile edition with commentary, in reduced dimensions].
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 96.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 8-11.
Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani: Secoli IX-XVI , ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004), p. 841.
Adal Labriola, 'L'ereditá di Giotto nella miniatura fiorentina' in L'ereditá di Giotto. Arte a Firenze 1340-1375, (Firenze: Giunti, 2008) pp.67-75 (p. 68) [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 134 [exhibition catalogue]. |
| Last revised: Thursday, June 2, 2011 |
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binding
Front cover and spine |
f. 1
Puzzle initials |
f. 1v
Sedes Dei |
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f. 2
Puzzle initial |
f. 2v
Enoch and Elias |
f. 3
Puzzle initials |
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f. 3v
Puzzle initials |
f. 4
Puzzle initials |
f. 4v
Christ |
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ff. 4v-5
Christ and the Virgin |
f. 5
Virgin Mary |
f. 5v
Puzzle initials |
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f. 6
Angels |
f. 6
Seraphs |
f. 6
Cherubs |
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f. 6
Thrones |
f. 6v
Angels |
f. 6v
Dominations |
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f. 6v
Princes |
f. 6v
Powers |
f. 7
Angels |
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f. 7
Virtues |
f. 7
Archangels |
f. 7
Angels |
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f. 7v
Patriarchs, Prophets and Apostles |
f. 7v
Patriarchs. |
f. 7v
Prophets |
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f. 7v
Apostles |
f. 8
The Blessed |
f. 8
Martyrs |
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f. 8
Confessors |
f. 8
Virgins, Widows, and the Just |
f. 8v
Cross |
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f. 9
Christ |
f. 9v
Puzzle initial |
f. 10
Puzzle initial |
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f. 10v
King Robert of Anjou |
ff. 10v-11
Robert of Anjou; personification of Italy |
f. 11
Italy |
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ff. 11v-12
Rome and Hercules |
f. 11v
Rome |
f. 12
Hercules |
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ff. 12v-13
Fleur-de-lys and Florence |
f. 12v
Fleur-de-lys |
f. 13
Florence |
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f. 13
Florence |
f. 13v
Puzzle initials |
f. 14
Puzzle initial |
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f. 14v
Puzzle initials |
f. 15
Puzzle initials |
f. 15v
Gardens |
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f. 15v
Garden |
f. 15v
Garden |
f. 16
Puzzle initial |
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f. 16v
Text page |
f. 17
Puzzle initial |
f. 17v
Puzzle initial |
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f. 18
Text page |
f. 18v
Text page |
f. 19
Text page |
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f. 19v
Faith |
f. 20
Hope and Christ |
f. 20v
Charity |
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f. 21
Prudence and Justice |
f. 21v
Fortitude and Temperance |
f. 22
Judgement of Paris |
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f. 22v
Cassandra |
f. 23
Peacock |
f. 23v
Two banners |
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f. 24
Armed knight |
f. 24v
The Three Graces |
f. 24v
The Three Graces |
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f. 25
Royal House of France |
f. 25v
Puzzle initial |
f. 26
Puzzle initial |
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f. 26v
Text page |
f. 27
Philosophy |
f. 27
Philosophy |
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f. 27v
Puzzle initial |
f. 28
Blank folio |
f. 28v
Pegasus |
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f. 29
Seven Liberal Arts |
f. 29v
Four Muses |
f. 30
Four Muses |
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f. 30v
Calliope |
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