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Detailed record for Additional 28841
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| Author |
Cocharelli |
| Title |
Leaves from a prose treatise on the Seven Vices (f. 1) and a verse on events from the history of Sicily in the time of Frederick II (1298-1337) (ff. 2-7) |
| Origin |
Italy, N. W. (Genoa) |
| Date |
c. 1330 - c. 1340 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Master of the Cocharelli codex (active in Genoa, c. 1330) |
| Decoration |
7 leaves with miniatures and historiated borders in colours and gold, of human figures, insects, birds, animals and sea-shells. |
| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 110 (each) |
| Official foliation |
Parchment leaves foliated as '1'-'7'. |
| Form |
Parchment leaves mounted on paper guards bound together in an album. |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
The text composed by a member of the Cocharelli family of Genoa, probably before 1324 for the instruction of the children of the family, illustrated with tales described by Pelegrino Cocharelli (see Backhouse 1997; Fabbri 2004).
Seymour Stocker Kirkup (b. 1788, d. 1880), painter and antiquary: his sale, 6 December 1871, lot 2170; purchased by the British Museum on 12 December 1871. |
| Notes |
Italian cuttings.
Other leaves and cuttings of this volume are Add. 27695, Egerton 3127 and 3781; Cleveland, Museum of Art, J.H. Wade Fund n. 1953.152; and Florence, Museo del Bargello, inv. 2065. Another section was sold as part of 'Eine Wiener Sammlung', Berlin, 12 May 1930, lot 3, with plate. |
| Select bibliography |
The bibliography for all of the cuttings (see Notes):
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1887), pp. 346 and 565.
[Eric G. Millar], British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1928), p. 13, pl. XXXI.
A. C. Crombie, 'Cybo d'Hyères: a fourteenth century zoological artist', Endeavour, 9 (1952), 18-37 (figs. 1-2).
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1931-1935 (London: British Museum, 1967), no. Eg. 3127.
Janet Backhouse, 'Pioneers of Modern Calligraphy and Illumination', British Museum Quarterly 33 (1969), 71-79 (p. 78) [on this manuscripts as inspiration for Add. 54,253].
Francis Klingender, Animals in Art and Thought to the end of the Middle Ages, ed. by Evelyn Antal and John Harthan (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), p. 479, pl. 295.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson, 'Aposematic insects and the Master of the Brussels Initials', American Scientist, 62 (1974), 161-71.
Brunsdon Yapp, Birds in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1981), pl. 40.
Europa und der Orient: 800-1900, ed. by Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (Berlin: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1989), no. 5/2 [exhibition catalogue].
Michael Camille, Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (London: Reaktion, 1992), pl. 27.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 115.
British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series 1966-1970, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1998), I, no. Eg. 3781.
Aristotle's Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. by Carlos Steel, Guildentops and Pieter Beullen (Leuven: University Press, 1999), p. 376, n. 47.
Francesca Fabbri, 'Il "Cocharelli": osservazione e ipotesi per un manoscritto genovese del XIV sec', Tessuti, oreficerie, miniature in Liguria XIII-XV secoli, ed. by A. R. Calderoni Masetti, C. Di Fabio and M. Marcenaro, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi: Genova-Bordighera, 22-25 May 1995 (Bordighera: Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri, 1999), pp. 305-20, fig. 1 [f. 5v].
Robert Gibbs 'Antifonario N: A Bolognese choirbook in the context of Genoese illumination between 1285 and 1385,' ibidem, pp. 247-78, (pp. 270-78).
Nicholas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 52-53.
Francesco Mezzalira, Bestie e bestiari: la rappresentazione degli animali dalla preistoria al rinascimento (Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 2001), pp. 42, 46, pl. 47.
Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), fig. 9.
Francesca Fabbri, 'Maestro del Codice Cocharelli', Dizionario biografico dei miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Bonnard, 2004), pp. 495-97, 1040.
Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 54.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 51, 54. |
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f. 3
A walled town, cannibals and exotic animals |
f. 3v
Sea horses, snails and shells |
f. 4v
Insects |
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f. 4v
Moth |
f. 4v
Moths |
f. 5
Marine creatures |
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f. 5v
Insects |
f. 6v
Insects and rabbits |
f. 6v
Moth |
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f. 7v
Insects |
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