(Q2899)

Statements

Extratto da un libro de razza da cavalli del re Ferrante vechio de Aragona.
0 references
0 references
Curnieu, Charles Louis Adélaïde Henri Matheron, baron de, approximately 1811-1871
0 references
Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842
0 references
0 references
0 references
0 references
0 references
Animal culture--Early works to 1800
0 references
Agriculture--Early works to 1800
0 references
0 references
0 references
Horses--Early works to 1800
0 references
Horsemanship--Early works to 1800
0 references
0 references
Early works to 1800
0 references
0 references
Extent: 47 leaves : parchment ; 228 x 157 (157 x 109) mm bound to 233 x 166 mm
0 references
Ms. codex.
0 references
Origin: Probably written in Venice, based on binding and script (Lisa Fagin Davis); dated 1541 (f. 47r).
0 references
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
0 references
Collation: Parchment, i + 47 + i; 1-5⁸ 6⁸(-1); gatherings numbered 1-6 in modern pencil, lower right recto.
0 references
Binding: Original Venetian morocco over pasteboard, blind- and gilt-tooled.
0 references
Script: Written in a cancellaresca script.
0 references
Decoration: Pen flourishes on either side of title (f. 1r) and some chapter headings; calligraphic initials in left margins at beginning of chapters.
0 references
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink.
0 references
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
0 references
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1994, lot 85, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
0 references
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
0 references
Sold at auction by Etude Couturier Nicolay at Hôtel Drouot as part of the baron de Curnieu collection, 25 Feb. 1986, lot 144.
0 references
Formerly owned by Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte de Morel de Vindé (presentation letter from him to an unidentified woman, 1826, pasted inside upper cover).
0 references
Possibly first owned by Philippe de Croy, duc d'Arschot, marquis de Renty (after 1533), chevalier de la Toison d'Or, and royal chamberlain (inscriptions and pen trials inside lower cover).
0 references
Sold as part of the Huzard collection, 1843, to Charles Louis Adélaïde Henri Matheron, baron de Curnieu (armorial booklabel inside upper cover).
0 references
Formerly owned by J.-B. Huzard, preeminent 18th- and 19th-century collector of texts on horses (stamp, f. 1r).
0 references
4 August 2023
0 references
4 August 2023
0 references
0 references