Showing posts with label foliation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foliation. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 January 2016
More on the 12th-Century Cistercian Missal Formerly Owned by Otto Ege
Sunday, 16 November 2014
Another Soranzo MS, now in Philadelphia
Browsing images of manuscripts at the Free Library, Philadelphia, I recently came across another unrecognised manuscript (Lewis E 219) formerly owned by Giacomo (alias Jacopo) Soranzo, with the distinctive foliation described in a previous post:
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Soranzo - Canonici - Sneyd
Today I learned that there will be an exhibition in Florence next year, at the Galleria dell'Accademia, called La fortuna dei Primitivi: Tesori d'arte dalle collezioni italiane fra Sette e Ottocento, dedicated to 18th- and 19th-century Italian collecting of "primitives".
The foliation in the middle of the lower margin shows (not mentioned in the Bonham's catalogue) that it comes from the collection of Jacopo Soranzo (1686-1761):
It will include a section about Lord Ashburnham and another about Matteo Canonici. This reminds me of a manuscript that sold at Bonham's in London a year ago:
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