Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

Unidentified Italian or French artist, mid-17th century
Volume of 30 vellum leaves containing
coloured decorative designs for parterres,
copied from J. Boyceau, Traité Du Jardinage,
1638
Insc: (frontispiece, verso): 30 dessenes de
plafonds Corniches & decorationes antiques sur
velain in fol
Bound in vellum (320 x 245)

Teofilo Torri (1555-?1623) & Orazio Porta (c.1540-1616)
Volume known as the Vasari Album, c.1600.
Volume of miscellaneous drawings, mostly
architectural, including studies of
grotesques, ceilings, fireplaces, altars, doors
and windows, fountains, ornamental vessels,
churches and chapels (220 pages)
Bound in vellum (350 x 240)
For a full catalogue see Fairbairn Vol 2 pp 390-507

Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618)
Volume titled Liber.Leviticus.Bibliae.Sacrae,
with 190 sepia illustrations and MS text
Bound in leather (195 x 225)
Previously attributed to Federigo Zuccaro
(1542/3-1609) because of the inscription on
the flyleaf: Ce Receuil est de frederic Zuckkero.
Attribution to Guerra by Nicholas Turner, 1987
For a full catalogue see Fairbairn Vol 2 pp 777-779

Millar: E. G. Millar, `Les manuscrits à peintures des
bibliotheques de Londres’, Bulletin de la Société
francaise de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, IV.
2 (1914-20), pp 83-128
Ker: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British
Libraries, 1969, pp 291-294

English School
Biblia Sacra, 13th C
ff. 337
Bound in red leather, embossed and tooled
in gold (220 x 160)
Millar, MS 9, pp 84-88; Ker, 9, p. 292
Although previously considered of English
origin, recent opinion has placed it on the
Continent. Kerstin Carlvant has attributed it
to a Brabantine illuminator of the mid-thirteenth
century and dated the Bible to the
1230s. See Kerstin Carlvant, `A Brabantine
Illuminator of the Mid-Thirteenth Century’,
in Miscellanea Neerlandica, I, 1987, pp 355-
380

Flemish School
2nd volume of a French translation of the works of
Flavius Josephus containing the latter part of the Antiquities
and the De Bello Judaico, c.1480
Bound in leather (492 x 350)
Millar, MS 1, pp 89-94; Ker, 1, p. 291
see also Maximilian P.J. Martens Lodwijk van Gruuthuse :
Mecenas en Europees Diplomaat ca.1427-1492, Bruges 1992
[Only ff.269 verso to the end microfilmed]

Flemish School
Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the use of an
Antonine convent, 15th/16th C
ff. 201
Bound in brown suede (174 x 123)
Miller, MS 7, pp 94-95; Ker, 7, pp 291-2

Flemish School
Book of Hours, 16th C
Bound in red velour, with metal corners (209
x 142)
Millar, MS 4, pp 95-108; Ker, 4, p. 291

Dutch School
Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dutch,
15th C
ff. 132
Bound in brown leather, heavily tooled and
ornamented, with brass clips (175 x 133)
Millar, MS 8, p.108; Ker, 8, p. 292

French School
Missal, 1482
Bound in blue leather boards, brown leather
spine, heavily tooled in gold (348 x 258)
Millar, MS 2, pp 108-9; Ker, 2, p. 291