Bible of the Borso d'Este

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Taddeo Crivelli, incipit dell'Ecclesiaste , Bible des Borso d'Este , vol. I, Lat. 422 = ms. VG 12, c. 280v

The Borso d'Este Bible is an illustrated manuscript in two volumes. The miniatures, a work by Taddeo Crivelli and others, were created between 1455 and 1461 . The plant is located in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena at the Ms. Lat location. 422-423.

history

The Bible of Borso d'Este is one of the most mature forms of Renaissance miniature and was designed by a team of artists led by Taddeo Crivelli and Franco dei Russi long six years parchment painted. After the end of the rule, it was brought from Ferrara to Modena in 1598 , where it remained until the end of the duchy in 1859. On this occasion she was taken into exile by Francis V , along with the most valuable treasures of the family . Brought from Italy, it was recovered during the First World War when it was auctioned in Paris for £ 5,000,000 by Senator Giovanni Treccani , who donated it to the Modena library in 1923.

description

Each page of the Bible is decorated with an elegant frame of spirals and other ornaments, with the text arranged in two columns. There are figurative scenes in the frame, especially in the lower part, where one can often see perspective representations that focus on the achievements of contemporary painting. There are also scenes between the columns of text, even next to the illustrated capital letters. In the spirals at the corners there are often lifelike animals that remind of the polite taste and are often associated with heraldic references to Borso and his family.

gallery

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reproduction

In 1925 the Brescian entrepreneur Giovanni Treccani bought the Bible des Borso d'Este in Paris , which was to be sold to an American collector, for an enormous sum of 5 million lire and donated it to the Kingdom of Italy. On the initiative of the same patron Giovanni Treccani, in 1937 Bestetti Edizioni d'Arte in Milan, in collaboration with the publisher Emilio Bestetti, made some valuable numbered reproductions of this work in limited edition, which have developed into one of the most valuable works of Italian printmaking.

1961–1963 a facsimile edition of the Borso d'Este Bible was published by G. Treccani in collaboration with the Banca Popolare di Bergamo and Poligrafiche Bolis.

In 1996 the publisher Franco Cosimo Panini, who specializes in luxury editions, in collaboration with the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana , reproduced only 750 numbered facsimile copies.

credentials

  1. ^ “Giorgio Scerbanenco e il cuore nero del giallo di casa nostra. Viaggio al dates dell'ossessione di una vita ” (tesi di dottorato), pp. 117-118 ( it , pdf)
  2. ↑ La bibbia di Borso d'Este ( it )

literature

  • La Bibbia di Borso D'Este . Emilio Bestetti Editore D'Arte, Milan 1937 (Completely reproduced on behalf of Giovanni Treccani with documents and historical-artistic study by Adolfo Venturi. The text consists of two columns framed by friezes and figures in black and white. Numerous pages with Color friezes and miniatures reproduced outside the text and a page with a color portrait of Borso D'Este. 2 volumes, 31 × 41.5 cm., (Folio format) pp. 68, 311 , 292. Gold title and dry impressions of the plates, silk look with gold coat of arms, back with gold friezes.).
  • Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri, Adolfo Venturi, Banca Popolare, Poligrafiche Bolis (eds.): La Bibbia di Borso d'Este . Bergamo 1962 (Edited by Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri with documents and historical-artistic study by Adolfo Venturi. Complete reproduction of the text in black and partly on plates in 12 colors and hand-applied gold. 2 volumes, 30.5 × 42 cm., 1300 pages. Box set packed in velvet (leather bound, gold title on the back, silver coat of arms on the front).
  • Stefano Zuffi: Il Quattrocento . Electa, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-370-2315-4 .
  • La Bibbia di Borso d'Este: ms. Lat. 422-423, Biblioteca Estense e universitaria, (facsimile and commentary) . Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena 1997 (hardback, 1st edition, 41 cm., Ferrara, second half of the 15th century, published by 750 copies, 748 of which are numbered titles, classification Dewey 220.47).

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