Relationi delli Principi de Italia (Accounts of the Rulers of Italy), in Italian, manuscript on paper
Published by Italy (Tuscany?), 1605
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Seller: Les Enluminures (ABAA & ILAB), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Les Enluminures (ABAA & ILAB)
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: UNPUBLISHED ITALIAN DIPLOMATIC MANUSCRIPT, in Italian, manuscript on paper, Italy, Tuscany(?), 1605. Dimensions 260 x 196 mm., 16 folios on paper, complete, written in Italian cursive script in brown ink in 24 long lines. BINDING: Modern binding, blue paper cover with typed title pasted on the front cover, Relatione [sic] delli Principi de Italia . TEXT: The roots of modern diplomacy with our embassies and their ambassadors come into focus in this modest paper pamphlet. It belongs to an understudied category of Early Modern documents that consist of records known as Relazioni that ambassadors compiled on their travels and residencies, a practice that began already in the fifteenth century. Most likely written by an Italian ambassador of the early 17th century, this set of unpublished diplomatic records offers a snapshot of the Italian political scene at the time of its creation and survives as an excellent reminder of the pervasive manuscript culture that existed after the popularization of print. PROVENANCE: Produced in 1605 based on internal evidence on f. 9, where the eldest son of Carlo Emanuele I, the principe of Savoy, is said to be eighteen years old. The fact that the text spends little time discussing Tuscany might be an argument for the localization of the manuscript there, since an ambassador would not concentrate on his own region; name added in pencil below the typed title pasted on the front cover, "Pla t "; owners' or booksellers' annotation inside of the back cover in pencil, "3535 ike"; private collection. CONDITION: small tears ff. 12, 13, 14, 16, otherwise good condition. Full description and images available. [TM 400].…
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- Relationi delli Principi de Italia (Accounts of the Rulers of Italy), in Italian, manuscript on paper
- Publisher
- Italy (Tuscany?), 1605
- Condition
- Good
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- Italian Manuscripts
Les Enluminures (ABAA & ILAB)
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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LES ENLUMINURES was founded in Paris in 1991 by Dr. Sandra Hindman in association with the Chicago-based business, and has galleries in Paris and Chicago. Specializing in manuscripts and miniatures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the gallery also handles rings and jewelry from the same periods. It organizes four or five exhibitions a year, some in collaboration with other dealers and some traveling to other locations, and these are often accompanied by catalogues. LES ENLUMINURES exhibits at many prestigious art and antique shows, including The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, the Winter Antiques Show in New York, Masterpiece in London, and the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. International clients of the gallery include the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, as well as many other institutional and private clients worldwide. SANDRA HINDMAN is a leading expert on Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. Professor Emerita of Art History at Northwestern University and Owner of LES ENLUMINURES, Paris, Chicago and New York, Professor Hindman is author, coauthor, or editor of more than ten books, as well as numerous articles on the history and reception of illuminated manuscripts and on medieval rings. These publications include The Robert Lehman Collection. IV. Illuminations (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997); Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2001); and Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings: A Private Collection(Paris, 2007). Sandra Hindman is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America, the National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America, the Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires.…
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