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Irritamenta - Numismatic Treasures of a Renaissance Collector (Hardcover)
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Irritamenta - Numismatic Treasures of a Renaissance Collector (Hardcover)
Series: Numismatic Studies, 3
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Winner of the 2017 Numismatic Literary Guild Best Book about World
Coins award Handsomely bound in red leather, MS Typ 411 is one of
thousands of rare editions, manuscripts, and documents in that
library's Printing and Graphic Arts section, formerly called the
Typography Department. Resembling an old fashioned family Bible at
10 x 8 inches and some 300 pages, when opened this book reveals no
text but a series of fine pen-and-ink drawings, 1,220 illustrations
of ancient coins. These are the records of a coin collection owned
by Andrea Loredan, a Venetian patrician well known in the 1550s and
'60s as a passionate connoisseur of antiquities. Silver
tetradrachmas of Athens and Alexander the Great, aurei of Philip
and Augustus, denarii of Caesar and his assassins, large Imperial
sestertii of Nero and Hadrian, the numismatic images were intended
to delight the eye, stir the curiosity, and enflame the acquisitive
instincts of prospective buyers, at a time when the cash-strapped
patrician was seeking to liquidate the ancient treasures of his
private museum. The volume was, in essence, a sales catalogue, a
species of book not often sought out and admired for artistic or
literary merit. Yet Loredan and his unknown draftsman, unaware of
how they were benefiting future scholars, produced a graphic
masterpiece of elegance and charm, a document of the highest
importance for the study of Renaissance antiquarianism, humanism,
and archaeology.
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