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Della miniatura, etc
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Della miniatura, etc.
Created
Italy, 1620.
Physical Description
ff. i + 118 + i : paper ; 129 x 82 (98 x 59) mm.
Language
Italian
Notes
Script: Written in upright humanistic bookhand for arts. 1 and 2 and for the headings in art. 3. Main text in a gently sloping italic script. Additions on ff. 95v-113v by several hands, some very cursive and poorly formed.
Simple headpieces, in brown pen, for beginning of some chapters.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with a gold-tooled spine: "Mariani Della Miniatur [sic]".
In Italian.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Bought from the English dealer R. C. Hatchwell in 1958 by H. P. Kraus from whom it was purchased in 1965 as the gift of Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of a pocket-size codex containing discussions of painting miniatures in manuscripts. On ff. 1r-30v Mariani provides a list of colors and the recipes for each color; in the remainder of the text he discusses techniques for painting landscapes in perspective. The second portion of the treatise (ff. 84r-95v) is, according to the title-page, the work of Antonello Bertozzi (fl. ca. 1590). The focus of this section is on painting watercolor portraits rather than on painting landscapes. On ff. 97v-113v, miscellaneous additions in at least 3 hands, dated 1612-1627.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 372.
Valerio Mariani, Della Miniatura, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Valerio Mariani, Della Miniatura, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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