Della miniatura, etc

Description

Title: Della miniatura, etc
Creator: Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982
Contributor: Bertozzi, Antonello.
Published / Created: 1620.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: 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
Description: In Italian.
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]".
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.
Extent: ff. i + 118 + i : 129 x 82 (98 x 59) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982.
Subject (Topic): Art
Technique
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval
Miniature painting, Italian
Workshop recipes
Subjects: Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982
Art > Technique
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Miniature painting, Italian
Workshop recipes
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Valerio Mariani, Della Miniatura, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.