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Rings, Pompeii, Ostia, Silchester; Sicily; plan for Middleton's house in Cambridge; Renaissance medals

Reference code
MID/01/17
Title
Rings, Pompeii, Ostia, Silchester; Sicily; plan for Middleton's house in Cambridge; Renaissance medals
Date
1891-93
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 volume
Small maroon leather bound notebook (“J. Henry Middleton [1] – 709/17”)
Scope and content
Pencil sketches, some with watercolour, of church and domestic architecture, art, and archaeological objects.

Some drawings include measurements and additional notes written in English, Greek, Latin and Arabic.

Includes two indices (front half, back half) which corresponds to the pages he numbered individually and the directional change. (Classical end “finished Oct 1893”; Medieval end “Jan 1891-“)

Index (1) provided by Middleton (“Classical end”) has been expanded to include more detail. Notebook includes notes and/or drawings of:
pp 1-3: Rings from Fortnum collection
pp 4: Blank page
pp 5: Roman ivory tablets
pp 6; Blank page
pp 7: Roman tegula mammata
pp 8: Blank page
pp 9-10: Pages torn out
pp 11: Lake Nemi (Sept 28, 1891)
pp 12: Notes on early Greece
pp 13: Stele at National Museums of Athens
pp 14-15: Marble block at National Museum (“see page 38”)
pp 15: box of instruments at National Museum of Athens
pp 17: Athens Museum
pp 18: Catalina boat
pp 19: Mt Etna from the sea (May 22, 18?)
pp 20-22: Objects from Selinus at Palermo Museum
pp 23-24: Capella Palatina, Palermo
pp 25-26: Palermo Museum (May, 25, 1892)
pp 27 Mt Vesuvius from Posilippo (1856-1892 May 26)
pp 28-29: Naples Museum
pp 30-35: Pompeii domestic architecture
pp 36: Ring at Naples Museum
pp 38: Surgical instruments at Naples Museum
pp 39-43: Naples Museum (May 30; May 31)
pp 44-45: Papa Giulio Museum, Falerii Cemetery, Rome
pp 46-47: Ostia domestic architecture (June 7, 1892)
pp 48: Ostia Mithraeum
pp 49-50: Ostia domestic architecture (June 7, 1892)
pp 51: Collection of Signor Baracco (Corso)
pp 52-53: Torlonia Collection of sculpture (June 9, 1892)
pp 54: Greek pyxis at British Museum
pp 55 Silchester Christian Church (“earliest found in Brit.”)
pp 56: Perugia (Sept 13/14, 1892)
pp 57: View of Monte Luce, Perugia (Sept 14, 1892)
pp 58: View of S. Pietro and S. Domenico, Perugia (Sept 14)
pp 59: View of Monte Subasio, Assisi and Porta Pesa from Villa Sabatini, Perugia (Sept 16, 1892)
pp 60: View of S. Domenico from Villa Sabatini, Perugia (Sept 17, 1892)
pp 61: View of Monte Subasio, Assisi from the garden of Villa Sabatini, Perugia (Sept 22, 1892)
pp 62: Tusculum – Theatre (Dec-Jan 1892/1893)
pp 63: Roman road on raised walls (“station of Gallese”)
pp 64: Marble stele in Museo Della Terme (“with inscription record of Ludi Saculares”
pp 65-68: Enechtrheum fragments in British Museum
pp 69: “Class tripos part II – D for 1894”
pp 70-71: Roman coins
pp 72: Analyses of early Athenian coins and Greek bronze

Index (2) provided by Middleton (“Mediaeval end”) has been expanded to include more detail. Notebook includes notes and/or drawings of:
pp 1: Notes on Peter Vischer
pp 2: Leoni medal of Michelangelo
pp 4-5: Old Masters 1891-1892
pp 6: Blank page
pp 7: Messina Cathedral (May 23, 1892)
pp 8: Blank page
pp 9: Palermo Cathedral (May 24, 1892)
pp 10: Naples Cathedral
pp 11: Naples Museum objects; View of Capri from Posilippo road (May 30)
pp 12-13: S. Elmo – S. Martino, Castle del Novo (May 30)
pp 14: Blank page
pp 15: Laon Cathedral “from the train” (June 11, 1892)
pp 16: Hispano-Mauresque ware – lustered
pp 17: Ludovico Sforza, Milan
pp 18: Persian fireplace S.K.M.
pp 19: Hemp.-break: Lord Braye’s badge
pp 20-21: King’s College seal
pp 22: Notes on Perugia
pp 23: Philip Webb design for William Morris
pp 24: “House for JHM £2400” (“St. Johns’s Cricket Field, Cambridge”)
pp 25: S.K.M. tapestry from church in Bedfordshire (“seems German work”)
pp 26-27: Paris Hoare – colour-printing at British Museum
pp 27: Arabic numerals
pp 28-29: Burford Church, Oxon (Aug 16, 1893)
pp 30: Earliest colour-printing – Bodleian canon on Vellum by Schoeffer
pp 31: “Caxton’s advertisement for the sale of Sarum Pyes”
pp 32: Blank page
pp 33: Bronze fittings for gypsere
pp 34: Inscription on chalice in S.K.M.
pp 35: Show case
pp 36: Bronze cast medal of Federgio Gonzaga Duke of Mantua
pp 37: Medal of Filippo Maria Angelo Visconti Dule of Milan by Pisano of Verona
pp 38: Medal of Sigismondo de Malatesta Lord of Rimini by Pisano (1445)

Numbered 24 by Middleton.
Creator
Middleton, John Henry (1846-1896), archaeologist and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/709/1-18
MS 709
Conditions governing access
Please note that the pencil has smudged considerably on some pages, making some of the contents illegible.

Handling restrictions may be placed on this notebook. Please contact the Archivist with as much notice as possible if you would like to view this item.