Saragrace Knauf wrote: > Okay - now that I can read the text, I understand what Robin was saying - > the figures 257 and 258 are not from the Deposition/Lamentation by > Gerard David....so now to hunt down the reference MS No D IX...
Yeah, well, good luck with that (see my previous post). I'm sure a little time in a good university library, with a manuscript catalog from the BL, would turn up some candidates for "D ix" other than the two 15th-century possibilities I listed earlier, but then you'd have to comb each of those books to find which image it might be (since Houston doesn't give folio numbers). BL has some of its illuminated mss online, but not anything from Royal or Cotton (and I think not from Harley either), which are really big, important collections. BL may have a full list of mss online somewhere, but the only search function I saw there in a cursory glance only covered those mss for which actual page images were online. Bear in mind also that Houston very likely never saw the original illumination. A lot of her images are redrawings from earlier costume books--I've recognized some taken from Planche, Strutt, and Jacquemin--with those authors' "adjustments" incorporated and her own added. Her bibliography lists these sources and others, all of them secondary. (Some of her images come from published rubbings of monumental brasses, and she cites several standard references of those; those at least will be slightly less removed from the original sources than her redrawings from other costume authors.) Houston's error in the shelfmark for "D. ix" could easily have been a misunderstanding or mistranscription of a fuller shelfmark cited by a previous author. Strutt in particular took a huge proportion of his images from mss in the British Library (and he *did* examine the originals and drew directly from them, and reasonably well), and he sourced everything by shelfmark. So if you can get your hands on a copy of Strutt, that might be a good place to look to identify the right MS. Planche mostly copied from Strutt, and Fairholt from both of them. IIRC, Jacquemin used mostly French sources, including some from the Bib. Nationale de Paris. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
