Colvin, Sidney; British Museum / Prints and Drawings Gallery; Malcolm, John [Bearb.]: Guide to an exhibition of drawings and engravings by the old masters, principally from the Malcolm Collection in the Print and Drawing Gallery (London: British Museum, 1895)

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Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches.

5. Initial letter R, with the Resurrection.
From the Klinkosch collection.
Leaf from an illuminated folio service-book: below, the first words of
the hymn, RESURESIT CRS DE SEPVLCRO ALLELVIA, &c.
Probably by the same hand and from the same book as No. 4 (M., App. II.,
Add. 25”).
6. Initial letter NT, with the Last Supper.
From the Klinkosch collection.
Leaf cut from an illuminated service-book, probably the same as Nos. 4
and 5 (M., App. II., Add. 25c).

/ UMBRIAN SCHOOL, late 15th Century.
\ Initial letter P, with the Nativity and the Annunciation.
From the Cellotti collection.

Leaf cut from an illuminated folio service-book: a rich and highly-finished
but somewhat gaudily coloured example, with border not in the best
taste (M., App. II., 4).

ITALIAN, 15th Century.
Humiliated border of scroll work.
From the Cellotti and Rogers collections.

Leaf cut from an illuminated folio MS.: the pictures or text enclosed have
been cut away; a fine example of Italian miniature ornament abo^t4489
(M., App. II., 5).'—---’ ~

NORTH-ITALIAN, 15th Century.
9. “Urbs Roma”: a seated figure of Rome holding a statuette of
Victory.
From the Cellotti collection.
Miniature painting on vellum adapted from an ancient cameo; probably
executed not for a book, but independently, by an artist of the school of
Mantegna, about 1470; a very beautiful example (M., App. II., 4).
NORTH-ITALIAN, 15th Century.
10. Ornamental border with Tritons, birds, flowers, medallions,
and the arms of a Cardinal of the house of Medici; and
within, a miniature of a Cardinal performing mass.
Border cut from the leaf of an illuminated book: to which the miniature
mounted within it may or may not belong. The border is a very fine
example of the style of ornament practised by Girolamo dai Libri (to
whom it is attributed) and other Italian miniaturists of the first quarter,/)f
the sixteenth century. The panel with the name of Pope Clement VII.,
and the inner strip of the border 1., are spurious (M., App. II., 6).

/ Giulio CLOVIO.
Miniature painter, the most famous of the later Renaissance: Roman School:
b. 1498, d. 1578: worked principally at Rome, also at Venice, Mantua,
Florence, and in Spain: pupil of Giulio Romano, afterwards chiefly
influenced by Michelangelo.