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Manuscripts Catalogue - Document Details
| Reference Code: |
GB 0247 MS Ferguson 151 |
| Call Number: |
MS Ferguson 151 |
| Content: |
Libro de secreti di chimica. 18th
century. Contains instructions for making various varnishes and
lacquers, pp 1-31; alchemical recipes for curing illnesses, pp
33-49; recipes for lacquers and dyeing processes, pp 50-68; and
instructions for painting, i.e. varnishes, colours, canvasses to
be used, pp 69-160. Details for etching on copper are given on
p. 72 and for making gunpowder and fireworks on p. 88 and p.
114. Recipes are given from Giovanni Domenico Rossi (p. 128) and
Fra Vittore Ghislandi of Bergamo, 1655-1743 (p. 138, p. 144). On
p. 153 reference is made to a book entitled Nuovo plico d'ogni
sorta di tinture with notes by Galipidio Tallier, the pseudonym
of one Albertolli [an ancestor of the painter Giocondo
Albertolli (b.1742)?], and of which mention is made of two
editions - Liège: Jean François Broncart, 1698 and Lyons: 1714.
This Albertolli is said also to have written a work entitled
Libro da coro, published at Bologna by Lunghi. Various dates are
given on several pages: p. 91 - 1754, 1757 ; p. 94 - 1754 li 10
Novbre ; p. 138 - 1758 ; p. 149 - 755 Giugno ; p. 151 - 1763.
The name of the bookseller Rosenthal is noted in Ferguson's hand
inside the back cover. Found by the Italian conservator, Claudio
Seccaroni, to contain two recipes for lacquers and varnishes
associated with the Bergamo artist Vittore Ghislandi, revealing
the secret of the artist’s famed red lacquer. |
| Date of Creation: |
17-- |
| Physical Description: |
Paper. 160 pages. 16.7x10.6 cm.
Contemporary paper-covered binding |
| Language: |
Italian |
| Document Type: |
Document |
| Bibliography: |
Claudio Seccaroni, ‘Un ricettario
inedito del '700 rivela il segreto della celebre lacca di Fra'
Galgario: la lacha fina del S.re Maestro di Pittura, il P.re
Vittore Ghislandi di Bergamo’, Kermes: La Rivista del Restauro (Florence),
anno 14, no 43 (Luglio-Settembre 2001), pp 35-45, including
reproductions of MS Ferguson 151, pp 138 and 144;
Gallipido Tallieri, Nuovo plico d'ogni
sorta di tinture, arricchito di rari, e bellissimi segreti per
colorire animali, vegetabili, e minerali (Bologna, 1679; 2nd
ed., Venice, 1780). |
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TALLIER, Gallipido Nuovo plico d’ogni sorte di tinture, Arricchito di
rari, e bellissimi Secreti per colorire Animali, Vegetabili, e Minerali.
Venice Lorenzo Basegio 1704
Very rare second edition (first Bologna 1679) of this popular book devoted to
the preparation of paints and coloring techniques.
$US1850
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