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| Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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| Location: |
Location Schlatt |
| Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Eisenbibliothek
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| Shelfmark: | Shelfmark Mss 13 |
| Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Disegni, e spiegazione della Fonderia principio, e termine della Campana di S. Pietro, fusa dal Cavalier Luigi Valadier, e Giuseppe di lui figlio nell'anno 1786 – per ordine di N. S. PP. Pio Sesto […] |
| Caption: | Caption Paper · 1 + 32 ff. · 33 x 24.5 cm · Italy · 1786 |
| Language: |
Language
Italian |
| Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary In this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839) describes the casting of the Campanone, the largest bell in St. Peter's Basilica, in a text featuring 14 watercolored pen and ink drawings. The Vatican had commissioned the bell from the foundry of his father, Luigi Valadier, who passed away in 1785, before the work on the bell was completed. The son Giuseppe completed the commission and in 1786 prepared a manuscript about this work, pairing each drawing with a written explanation in the form of a legend. First Valadier shows the foundry building (2v-7r); then, in an almost photographic wealth of detail and in vivid colors, he shows the process of producing the bell including the technique of the false bell and the casting in bronze (8v-21r). Finally the finished bell (22v-23r) is transported through the streets of Rome on a wooden sled (24v-25r) and is blessed by Pope Pius VI (26v-27r). – The manuscript was purchased in Bern in 1948. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-ebs-0013 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-ebs-0013) |
| Permanent link: | Permanent link https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/ebs/0013 |
| IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
https://e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/ebs-0013/manifest.json
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| How to quote: | How to quote Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13: Disegni, e spiegazione della Fonderia principio, e termine della Campana di S. Pietro, fusa dal Cavalier Luigi Valadier, e Giuseppe di lui figlio nell'anno 1786 – per ordine di N. S. PP. Pio Sesto […] (https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/ebs/0013). |
| Online Since: | Online Since 10/08/2015 |
| Rights: | Rights Images:
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| Document Type: |
Document Type
Manuscript |
| Century: |
Century
18th century |
| Dated: |
Dated
1786 |
| Decoration: |
Decoration
Figurative, Full Page, Tinted Drawing |
| Restored: |
Restored
Yes |
Teresa Leonor M. Vale (ed.): The art of the Valadiers. Torino [2017].
Franziska Eggimann: Eine Glocke für den Papst und eine Handschrift für die Eisenbibliothek. Giuseppe Valadier: Disegni, e spiegazione della Fonderia, 1786. In: Librarium. Zeitschrift der schweizerischen Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft, 2016, S. 24-38.
Alonso Ponga, José Luis: Vox dei ac vox populi. Le campane di San Pietro in Vaticano. Città del Vaticano 2014 (= Quaderno d'archivio 11) [im Appendice I (S. 127-157) eine kurze historische Erläuterung und ein Abdruck der beschriebenen und bebilderten Seiten des Manuskripts in Farbe].
Moser, Clemens: Giuseppe Valadiers Buch über den Glockenguss. In: Ferrum. Nachrichten aus der Eisenbibliothek 61, 1989, S. 92 f. (online: http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-378244) [gibt eine knappe Beschreibung des Manuskripts und der Hintergründe seiner Entstehung]
Valadier, Giuseppe: Disegni e spiegazione della fonderia. Offerto in occasione del Congresso internazionale delle associazioni tecniche di fonderia a Firenze, Settembre 1954. Sciaffusa 1954 [verkleinertes, einfarbiges Faksimile, dem eine kurze historische Einführung von Karl Schib vorangestellt ist]
Florian_Ruhland · 06/22/2019, 15:37:38
Auf Seite 100 und 256-285 ist die Handschrift abgedruckt.