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Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

pen and grey ink, brown ink used for corrections and added diacritics (recto and verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.27 (fol. 25)

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Related Works

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

Provenance

possibly Albert Rubens (1614-1657); bought by Captain Maurice Johnson, 1742/44 for his father, Maurice Johnson Sr., Spalding (1688-1755); by descent in Johnson and Marsden families; W.A. Marsden (book-plate, 1897); Christopher Marsden (bookplate, 1930); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23-24 March, 1970, lot 179; purchased there via Maggs Bros. (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 17/10/2017-21/01/2018; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, 08/02/2018-03/06/2018

Literature

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: lower half of a foolscap with five points visible above "4" above 3 Medici balls (matches Heawood 2002 - dated 1674, on a collection of Dutch papers in London).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “88.a.”; whole page, grey ink, with corrections and accents added in brown ink: “de qúadratúra circúli qúi fit hoc modo / qúadratúr in circúlo circúlús in qúadratúm […]” [not fully transcribed]; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “25”. Verso: upper half of page, grey ink with corrections and accents added in brown ink: “Basis stabiliúm dú qúae corpora instant / aaliúm qúia moventúr ex matus alteratione / dúae aút qúatuor aút plúviúm sed sxer / númeri pares”.

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