Thanks Marco!
I just hoped there had been any progress regarding the proveniance in the 50 years since the Prager and Scaglia publication.
I read it - but obviously not well enough, I missed the part about Palatino 766 presumably staying in Siena for decades. This would rule it out as the gift to Sigismund - which would have been very odd. Taccola was famous but still such notebook would have been an inapproproate gift for a freshly coronated emperor. He would have had the time and money to make a more luxurious copy. Btw, the later You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. copy has lost nearly all VM-related imagery. No star-sun, no references to Sigismund either.
So that leaves 2 paths.
One with the alleged copy that was given to Sigismund and may have ended up with Barbara of Cili
One with the original that stayed in Siena
In any case, the point that this work was not widely distributed still stands. How and where did the VM author gain access to it?
I just hoped there had been any progress regarding the proveniance in the 50 years since the Prager and Scaglia publication.
I read it - but obviously not well enough, I missed the part about Palatino 766 presumably staying in Siena for decades. This would rule it out as the gift to Sigismund - which would have been very odd. Taccola was famous but still such notebook would have been an inapproproate gift for a freshly coronated emperor. He would have had the time and money to make a more luxurious copy. Btw, the later You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. copy has lost nearly all VM-related imagery. No star-sun, no references to Sigismund either.
So that leaves 2 paths.
One with the alleged copy that was given to Sigismund and may have ended up with Barbara of Cili
One with the original that stayed in Siena
In any case, the point that this work was not widely distributed still stands. How and where did the VM author gain access to it?