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Detailed record for Additional 27376
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ff. 1-179 |
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Marino Sanudo called Torsello (c. 1270-1343); Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , translated by Nicholas de Vérone |
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| Title |
Liber secretorum fidelium crucis (Book of secrets of the faithful of the Cross) (ff. 1-163), letters (ff. 164-178); Pharsalia, in French (f. 179) |
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Italy, N. (Venice) |
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| Date |
c. 1331 (after 1327) |
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| Language |
Latin and French |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
12 bas-de page miniatures of the Crusades in colours, some with gold (ff. 1v, 4, 4v, 7, 8v, 45, 68, 74v, 108v, 138, 149v, 150). Partial foliate borders incorporating historiated initials (ff. 1, 1v, 2, 4, 4v, 7, 8v, 17, 19, 45, 46, 61v, 63v, 68, 74v, 79v, 95, 99v, 104v, 108v, 113v, 122, 131, 138, 149v). A two-page genealogical table of the rulers of the Crusader kingdoms and surrounding states in brown with red lines (163v-164). Marginal charts and diagrams in red and brown (ff. 46v, 48v, 49v, 50v, 51v, 86). Numerous initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the both colours. Book and chapter numbers in the upper margins and paraphs in blue or red. Rubrics in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
350 x 255 (250 x 155) written in two columns |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 180-190 |
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Pietro Vesconte |
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Portolan charts, maps, plans and a calendar, bound separately as Additional MS 27376* |
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| Origin |
Italy, N. (Venice) |
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| Date |
c. 1331 (after 1327) |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Artists |
Workshop of Pietro Vesconte, perhaps by his relative, Perrinus (see Konrad Dretschmer,Die italiernischen Portolane des Mittelalters (Berlin, 1910, repr. Hildesheim, 1962), p. 113 |
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| Decoration |
4 two-page portolan or navigational charts with flags and radiating lines (ff. 180-185), a mappa mundi (ff. 187v-188), a grid map of the Holy Land (188v-189) and plans of Jerusalem and Acre in green, brown and red (189v-190). A circular calendar in brown and red (ff. 185v-186). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
350 x 255 |
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| Official foliation |
2 volumes: vol.1: ff. 179 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end); vol. 2: ff. 11 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 parchment flyleaf and 17 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house binding (rebound in 1931) |
| Provenance |
Contents list in a 16th-century cursive hand on f. 180.
Matteo Luigi Canonici (b. 1727, d. 1805), Jesuit and collector of Venice: his ownership recorded by Sneyd.
Reverend Walter Sneyd (b. 1809, d.1888) of Denton House, Cuddleston, one of 915 books from Canonici's library purchased by him in Italy in 1835: his ownership stamp with coat of arms on the inside upper binding; bought from him by the British Museum on 9th June 1866.
In 1931 ff. 180-190 were bound separately as Additional MS 27376*. |
| Notes |
The shelfmark of part 2 (ff. 180-190, containing the maps) is Add. MS 27376*.
ff. 1-163: Sanudo's third version of the Secreta fidelium crucis, a treatise originally produced for Pope John XXII to promote a crusade to the Holy Land in 1321. In this revision, marginal notes from the second edition were included in the main text. There are 19 manuscripts surviving of the Secreta texts, all produced in Sanudo's lifetime, of which 7 contain the third version. This copy has the largest set of maps (9 in total) of any Sanudo manuscript. A fragment containing only Book III, part 14, is Additional MS 19531.
ff. 164-178v: Letters of Sanudo.
Catchwords in the lower margins. Marginal titles and notes.
Lines between the months in the calendar have been added by a later hand (ff. 185v-186) |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of an exhibition of maps held in the King's Library April 1953 ([London]: [British Museum], 1953), pp. 4, 5, no. 19.
Robert Lucas, 'Medieval French Translations of the Latin Classics to 1500', Speculum, 45 (1970), 225-53 (p. 240).
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, Part 2 , 2 vols(Berlin: Gerb. Mann, 1980), I, pl. 7, 73, p. 31.
Europa und der Orient: 800-1900, ed. by Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (Berline: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1989), pp. 687-88, fig.. 7/10 [exhibition catalogue].
Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797, ed. by Stefano Carboni (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007), no. 41, pl. on p. 62 [exhibition catalogue].
Irmeli Valtonen, The North in the Old English Orosius: A geographical narrative in context, (Helsinki: 2008, Société Néophilologique), pp. 232, 656.
Evelyn Edson, 'Reviving the crusade: Sanudo's schemes and Vesconti's maps', in Eastward bound: travel and travellers, 1050-1550, ed. by Rosamund Allen (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 131-55 (pp. 149, 151, 154).
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber secretorum fidelium crucis, translated by Peter Lock (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), p. 14. |
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Part 1
ff. 1-179 |
| Marino Sanudo called Torsello (c. 1270-1343); Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , translated by Nicholas de Vérone Liber secretorum fidelium crucis (Book of secrets of the faithful of the Cross) (ff. 1-163), letters (ff. 164-178); Pharsalia, in French (f. 179) |
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f. 4v
Crusaders in a boat |
f. 7r
Corsairs, Armenia |
f. 8v
Crusaders and Turks |
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f. 9
Text page |
f. 45
Soldiers attacking a fortress |
ff. 149v-150
Scenes of the Holy Land |
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Part 2
ff. 180-190 |
| Pietro Vesconte Portolan charts, maps, plans and a calendar, bound separately as Additional MS 27376* |
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f. 180
Notes and contents |
ff. 180v-181
Atlantic coast |
ff. 181v-182
Central Mediterranean |
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ff. 182v-183
Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea |
ff. 183v-184
Eastern Mediterranean |
ff. 184v-185
Black Sea |
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ff. 185v-186
Calendar |
ff. 187v-188
Mappa mundi |
ff. 188v-189
Map of the Holy Land |
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ff. 189v-190
Acre and Jerusalem |
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