BEIN 1977 Folio 185: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use. Accompanied by facsimiles of plates, housed separately and classed as 1977 Folio 185 2; some original plates removed from volume and replaced with facsimiles; original plates which have been removed are housed with volume., At head of title: Ioannis Baptistae Piranesii. Antiqvariorvm regiae societatis Londinensis socii., Engraved t.-p.; there is also an added engraved t.-p.: Il Campo Marzio dell' antica Roma., With dedication: Roberto Adam Britanno architecto celeberrimo., In Latin and Italian., and Engraved illus. signed: Piranesi F.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome., Rome, and Campo Marzio (Rome, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Antiquities, and Description and travel
Manuscript, in a single hand, with the title in Horace Walpole's hand, containing 49 drawings in red ink of medals, many of them erotic
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from title page in Horace Walpole's hand., Binding: old red morocco, with gold tooling on boards and six stamps between bands on spine., Note on verso of flyleaf in Horace Walpole's hand: "Bought at the sale of Sr. Clement Cotterel's Library, 1764., On front pastedown: armorial bookplate in red morocco, gold stamped with arms and the name "Edward Hailstone"., Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett on recto of front flyleaf., Not listed in: A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, ... which will be sold by auction, ... by Samuel Baker. [London, 1764]., and Old red morocco. No bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplates of Edward Hailstone and Oliver Brett.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Rome.
Subject (Name):
Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 42 B.C.-37 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Medals, Roman, Erotic art, Sex in art, Medals, Nudes, and Sex
Vue de l'Eglise de St. Sebastien qui est hors de la ville de Rome
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., and "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Print Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 15 July 1746.
Call Number:
Topos It88 no. 4++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an overgrown, ruined, domed classical building, on the left, in a field with uneven ground, bushes and trees, with a house to the right, a statue of a man wearing a laurel wreath on a pedestal in the right foreground and figures, including a boy lying on a piece of fallen masonry to the left, an old man walking towards him and pointing back at a woman who carries a basket on her head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered "3" in lower left corner.
Manuscript on paper of Flavius Blondus (Flavio Biondo, 1396-1463), Roma instaurata
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand writing a rapid Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The first line of the Prologue and the first word or second letter of the three Books are written in Capitalis., Rather carelessly written headings in purplish red ink, added posteriously at the beginning of the Prologue and of each Book, not corresponding to the instructions for the rubricator written in the margins by the scribe (no such instruction is visible on f. 3r). White vinestem initial (5 lines) and border in the same style in the upper and inner margins at the head of the Prologue (f. 3r). The Books open with 2-3-line plain initials (Capitalis) in blue; a similar 2-line initial was planned (and executed) at the beginning of what would be chapter 3 (“Ambitum”, f. 4v), but this practice was afterwards abandoned. Guide letters for the initials in the margin., and Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Brown goatskin over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with frame and centre-piece, the latter in the shape of a cross composed of small rhomboid stamps showing some remnants of gold. Remnants of one clasp attached to the front cover, with a brass catch fixed with three nails to the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome.
Subject (Name):
Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern and Manuscripts, Medieval
