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Reference number

SM volume 115/161

Purpose

Folio 97 and flap recto (Ashby 161): Four grotesque compositions and three helmets

Inscribed

[Drawing] 30 [early seventeenth-century hand]; 161
[Mount] 161

Medium and dimensions

[Drawing] (Drawing media as below) On a folded double sheet of laid paper (232x336mm), holes from stitching down centre, rounded corners at left and right, left half inlaid and right half folded to cover it (window on verso of mount)
[Verso of left half of drawing] Blank
[Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart
[Verso of mount] Window (224x160mm)

Watermark

[Drawing] Anchor in circle topped with six-pointed star (variant 3) [Mount] Fleur-de-lys in circle topped with crown (variant 2; cut at bottom of window)

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Group

Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin

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Contents of Folio 97 and flap recto (Ashby 161): Four grotesque compositions and three helmets