Indiana University Bloomington, Poole 24

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DS ID:

DS578

Shelfmark:

Poole 24

Title:

Facta et dicta memorabilia
Sayings

Author:

Valerius Maximus

Valerius Maximus WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Bartolomeo Sanvito, in the style of

Bartolomeo Sanvito WIKIDATA

Artist:

Tiptoft Master, in the style of. The illumination is close to that of the Paduan painter of the 1460s known as the Tiptoft Master

Tiptoft Master WIKIDATA

cf. A. C. de la Mare in Canova 1999a, pp. 252–53, no. 97, and de la Mare and Nuvoloni 2009, pp 144–45, no. 20.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Contemporary or very early binding (perhaps Venetian) of wooden boards bevelled on their inner edges and sewn onto three double bands, covered with tanned leather (presumably goatskin), panelled with triple lines and blind-stamped with multiple impressions of ropework tools and a stamp resembling a section of a wreath, later paper endleaves, upper cover detached; in a pale brown cloth...
Figurative details, ff. 1r-210v: All books opening with large initials in classical style in faceted design on panels including acanthus leaves, classical vases, dolphins, etc.; opening page entirely in colored capitals with a 4-line initial showing a naked boy in boots playing a lute all within a classical frame including cornucopiae and a coat-of-arms at the foot.
Other decoration, ff. 1r-210v: Headings in pale red; small initials in alternating pale red, blue and gold; main headings in colored capitals of alternating lines of colours and burnished gold.
Script, ff. 1r-210v: Italic cursive minuscule.
Layout, ff. 1r-210v: Collation: 33 [of 4, blank iv canceled], ii??“xxi#^103#, xxii#^7# [of 8, blank viii canceled]; ruled in pale red ink, 29 lines, written-space 130 mm. by 77 mm.; written in brown ink.

Former Owner(s):

Probably Marcantonio Morosini (c. 1435-1509), of Venice, with the Morosini arms on fol. 4r; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805), Venetian Jesuit; by descent to his brother, Guiseppe Canonici (d. 1807), and to Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who sold over 3000 of Canonici’s manuscripts to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1817 and 829 of the remaining manuscripts for 16,000 lire.

Matteo Luigi Canonici WIKIDATA

to the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888); Sneyd’s sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1903, lot 805; Leighton cat. 1908, no. 5793; sale at Sotheby’s, 16 May 1955, lot 108; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten in 1956, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

to the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888); Sneyd’s sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1903, lot 805; Leighton cat. 1908, no. 5793; sale at Sotheby’s, 16 May 1955, lot 108; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten in 1956, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.

Laurence Claiborne Witten II WIKIDATA

to the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888); Sneyd’s sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1903, lot 805; Leighton cat. 1908, no. 5793; sale at Sotheby’s, 16 May 1955, lot 108; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten in 1956, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.

George Amos Poole WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: Merolle 1958, p. 50 (then untraced); Faye and Bond 1962, p. 179; Schullian 1981, p. 698; S. M. Hanson in ‘Catalogue’ 1988, pp. 82–85, no. 15.
ff. 1r-210v: Coat of arms: The arms on fol. 4r are quartered with those used by both Marcantonio and Pietro Morosini in the books made for them by Sanvito, or a bend azure, and are superimposed with the arms described by Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718) as being in his time those of Morosini of Venice, party per pale, dexter, or 3 bends azure, and sinister, argent a lion rampant gules (Coronelli...
ff. 1r-210v: Latin.
ff. 1r-210v: Table of chapters (fol. 1), book I (fol. 4r) (Briscoe 1998, p.7), books II (fol. 24v), III (fol. 47r), IV (fol. 69v), V (fol. 93v), VI (fol. 118v), VII (fol. 141v), VIII (fol. 162v) and IX (fol. 186r),; t; fol. 210v is blank except for the tiny word finis.
Incipit, ff. 1r-210v: supplitio coesit.
Explicit, ff. 1r-210v: Valerii Maximi Factorum ac Dictorum Memoralium Liber. . . incipit, Urbis Rome exterarum.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Poole24_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Poole24_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington