The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 19 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 127

Description and Transcription

Recto

A.Aseated figure turning round and raising his arm.

B.With the right edge as base, two faces of anamboseen

obliquely.

C.With the right edge as base, three faces above pedestal

level of anamboseen frontally, diagrammatically and

lightly sketched, with an arch in the central panel.

D. The plan of an octagonalambo,with two long sides.

E.Apedestal in foreshortening.

F.With the left edge as base, two faces of anambo,above

pedestal level. They are diagrammatically and lightly

sketched.

Verso

Ave(n)d io ma(n)dato chosta p(er) u[n cha]napo, sono avisato

chome [n’ave]te uno facto. Se e dugie(n)[to br]accia e della

grossezza [che]...sara segniata i(n) questa [carta] lo

pigliero qua(n)do sia ben f[acto] e di buo(n) filo. P(er)che e

qua(n)[do n]o(n) sia chosi buono ne a grosse[zza) chome e

decto, fate ne [un alt]ro che io l’abbi sabato cho[me] avete

promesso e fate [che s]ia cosa octima.Eedanar[i] io .faro

pagare chosta a [Sal]viati o qua a chi mi aviser(ete)

(Wilde’s transcription, partly modified by Barocchi-

Ristori, reconstructing the portions lost in the middle

and ends of the lines.)

Atranslation due to a Professor de Fiveli is included in

the extra-illustrated copy of Robinson’s catalogue

preserved in the Print Room of the Ashmolean:

Having sent for the rope I am informed that you have one

ready made. If that is 200 braccia long and the thickness

marked on this paper, I shall take it provided that it is sound