Sean M wrote:Has anyone other than the staff at the J.P. Morgan Library looked at the ownership history of the Morgan Fiore?
A LIST OP WORKS ON SWORD PLAY (5th S. iv.
201, 242, 262, 303, 341.)—It may interest MR.
FRED. W. FOSTER to know that I have in my
possession an Italian manuscript, apparently written
in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the
Venetian dialect, on the subject of sword play.
The name of the author is Fiore Furlan. The
MS. was formerly in the library of the Abbate
Canonici of Venice, of whose MS. collections a
portion passed into my possession, by purchase,
about forty years ago. It is a small, thin folio, on
vellum, illustrated with many well-executed pen
and ink drawings, heightened with gold, representing
the combatants with sword and lance in various
attitudes, both on horseback and on foot. The
manuscript commences thus :—
" Piore Furlan de Civida dostria che fo de Mis. Benedeto
delta nobil casada delli liberi da p'megids dello dicci
si dello patriarchado de Aquilegia in sua zoventu volse
imprendere ad armizare e arte de combater in sbara zoe
a oltranza. U De lanza azza spada e daga e de abrnzare
ape e callo cavallo in arme e senza arme."
The work seems to be unknown, and I can find
no record of the author ; but I think I recollect
that the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., of
Middle Hill, had also a MS. copy of the same
work. WALTER SNEYD.
Keele Hall.
Sean M wrote:Do you mean that Walter Sneyd's was the Morgan, and that of Sir Thomas Phillipps was the Getty? I don't see his name in your essay, but Wiktenauer claims him as an owner of the Getty yet gives no source.
Matt Easton wrote:Known ownership history compiled by Matt Galas:
Niccolo Marcello di Santa Marina, Venice
Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750)
Luigi Celotti (c. 1789-c.1846) {sale, Sotheby's, 1825}
Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 4204 (sale, Sotheby's,1966)
Peter and Irene Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Getty Collection (current location)
J.B, Mitchell wrote:Soranzo had been in the habit of binding within one cover a number of manuscripts, somewhat unequal in size and discordant in content. Canonici usually broke up these volumes, particularly when a work in Latin was set next to one in Italian, or when a manuscript was bound up with printed books. He had the individual manuscripts rebound, either by themselves, or together with others with which they had something in common.
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