Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
MS 457 Acquisti e Doni, Datable to before 1613
372 numbered chapters with headings, 1 illustration
No Table of Contents
Modo del dipingere prospettive ombre lontanze altezze bassezze dipresso da
discosto et altro
Florentine provenance documented by watermark and
ownership
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This manuscript was copied by the Florentine artist and architect Antonio d'Orazio d'Antonio da Sangallo (1551-1639) from one of the earliest manuscripts of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting documented in Florence in the late 16th century.
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| Analysis This manuscript was copied by Antonio d'Orazio (1551-1639), nephew of the architect Antonio da Sangallo the younger, for his own use. It is mentioned among the books that Antonio d'Orazio owned before 1613, when he was imprisoned for extortion (his list of books is kept in MS Ricc. 2244, fol. 22r). The textual and visual comparison shows that FL2 was based on one of the earliest manuscripts of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting documented in Florence. By and large it follows F6 with minor variations in some chapters, which however can be explained as part of the copying process (see CID 196, 197, 289, 359 and 360) with the exception of CID 155 which cannot derive from F6 as in F6 that chapter is shorter. CID 155 derives, however, from either FM2 or F2. The title of FL2, "Modo del dipingere", is documented in this manuscript for the first time, but it appeared in numerous 17-century manuscripts associated with the editorial work of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and Galeazzo Arconati (1592-1648) between 1634 and 1640 (see manuscripts CE, M3, M4, MV1, N1, RC1, VB). |
| History The ownership of Antonio d'Orazio d'Antonio da Sangallo (1551-1639) is documented in a note on the frontispiece. Later, the manuscript belonged to Bargagli Petrucci and in 1959 it was acquired by the Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana. |
| Physical Description II+ [I] + p. 1-183 + [184] + p. 185-225 + I, 28.5 x 20.5 cm , in folio, fol. I "D.Antonio d'Oratio d'Antonio da Sangallo no. 39'; Ir "Tavola del presente libro: da carte 1 a ... sono il Modo del dipingere prospettive ombre lontanze altezze bassezze dipresso da discosto et altro c. 184 di Lionardo da Vinci"; fol. 1 "Parte seconda"; fols.185-225 Antonio Manetti, Moto et ordine di Filippo Brunellesco sopra della cupola. |
| Watermark 8 chain lines, watermark type Heawood 1257, documented in Florence in 1575 |
| Bibliography Tanturli, "Un nuovo manoscritto della Vita del Brunelleschi di Antonio Manetti", in Studi di filologia italiana. Bollettino annuale dell'Accademia della Crusca, vol. 51, 1993, pp. 135-136; Fava, La biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze e le sue insigni raccolte, 1939; Maracchi Biagiarelli, Antonio d'Oratio da Sangallo (1551-1639) bibliofilo, in La Bibliofilia 119 (1957): 147-54; Sconza, La réception du Libro di pittura de Léonard de Vinci: de la mort de l’auteur à la publication du Trattato della pittura (Paris 1651). Ph.D. Diss. Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle Paris III and Università degli Studi di Macerata, 2007. |
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