TitleTrattato como se a da inbrigliare il cavallo e de tutti signali
Dates / OriginDate Created: 1590Place: Italy
Library locationsSpencer CollectionShelf locator: Spencer Coll. MS. 55
TopicsHorses -- TrainingHorseback riding
GenresManuscriptsDrawings
NotesOwnership: Purchased for Spencer in 1948 from Albi Rosenthal, Oxford.Citation/reference: De Ricci, Supplement, 334. Listed in Digital Scriptorium, University of California, Berkeley.
Content: Up to 22 long lines per page. No ruling visible.Content: Drawings of horses and humans. Border designs with human figuresContent: Decorative initials, drawings of riding equipment, rubrics and hierarchy of script. Coat of arms.Content: Dated 1590 on f. 1 and f. 7v. Small pages sewn in between ff. 132 and 133, and ff. 140 and 141 (the latter is in a more modern hand).Content: 2 or more: in Italian, ff. 8-39; in French, ff. 130-141; paper with later handContent: COLLECTION HISTORY: The New York Public Library possesses one of the largest and finest collections of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in North America, yet its manuscript holdings are scarcely known to scholars, much less to a wide public audience. Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts are vehicles of the collective memory of western European culture, and provide a material connection between the scribes, illuminators, and patrons who produced these works and the audiences who view them today.
The works represent diverse genres, from Bibles and missals to romance literature and science texts. Dating from the turn of the 10th century until well into the period of the Renaissance, these works give vivid testimony to the creative impulses of the often nameless craftsmen who continually discovered new ways of animating the contents of hand-produced books through inventive and sometimes exuberant manipulations of all the elements of the book: form and format, layout, script, decoration, illustration, and binding.
Drawn from the Library's Spencer Collection and the Manuscripts and Archives Division, these works focus on the 9th through the 16th centuries -- seven hundred years of profound political, ecclesiastical, social, and intellectual change in Western Europe and the world. Among these rare items are a 10th-century Ottonian manuscript, with its imitation of Byzantine textile with gold decoration; the Towneley Lectionary, illuminated by Giulio Clovio (once praised as the "Michelangelo of small works"), which originated in Rome and probably belonged to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese; and a late 15th-century Book of Hours, which represents the leading style of illumination from Besançon, one of the French Regional Schools. (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)Biographical/historical: BACKGROUND: "The Digital Scriptorium" originated in the mid-1990s as an image database, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. NYPL curators have augmented the Digital Scriptorium's primary documentation of NYPL's contribution of 259 manuscript parts with images of the works' most significant illuminations. Some works in this digital presentation also appeared in the exhibition, "The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at The New York Public Library," held October 21, 2005 - February 12, 2006 in the Library's D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall.
- _Collection History_ and _Background_ text excerpted from the press release ‹http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/hssl/hsslexhibdesc.cfm?id=354› and exhibition catalog ‹http://www.thelibraryshop.org/splendorexcat.html› descriptions for "The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at The New York Public Library." (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)Citation/reference: RELATED RESOURCES: Alexander, Jonathan J. G., James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler. _The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at The New York Public Library_. (2005); NYPL. "The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at The New York Public Library." (2005-2006) ‹http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/hssl/hsslexhibdesc.cfm?id=354›>; University of California, Berkeley. "The Digital Scriptorium." (c1996-2004) ‹http://www.digital-scriptorium.org› (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)
Physical DescriptionExtent: Ff. 1-141v : 308 x 224 mmPaper
Type of ResourceStill imageText
LanguagesItalianFrench
IdentifiersNYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22841876Photo Order: 62845NYPL Digital Gallery Description: 33460Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d9fcf090-5438-0139-0db2-0242ac110003
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