Jacopo Stradas Magnum ac Novum Opus: A 16th-Century Numismatic Corpus. Phase 2b

雅各布·斯特拉达 (Jacopo Strada) 的《Magnum ac Novum Opus》是罗马帝国硬币图集，收录了 9000 多张钱币图画，这些图画保存在哥达研究图书馆 (Forschungbibliothek Gotha) 中的 30 卷帝国硬币中，以及大英图书馆 (British Library) 中的 4 卷罗马共和国硬币中。该资料库始于汉斯·雅各布·富格尔 (Hans Jakob Fugger) 约 1550 年，并于 1566 年进入巴伐利亚公爵阿尔布雷希特五世 (Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria) 的 Kunstkammer。斯特拉达 (Strada) 用单独的评论 A. A. A. NumismatΩn Antiquorum Διασκευή 补充了这些图画，该评论保存在两本 11 卷手稿中，现保存在维也纳和布拉格。该项目旨在统一和评论图像和文本，以在线数字版本呈现这些内容，并在其历史和艺术背景下研究这些材料。在第一阶段，斯特拉达在哥达的硬币图画和他在维也纳的硬币描述已被数字化和转录。对于第一批“十二皇帝”，图纸（哥达第 1-14 卷；约 4,100 张图纸）和相关描述已被输入文艺复兴时期已知的古董艺术和建筑作品普查数据库中，并相互关联并与作为斯特拉达来源的真实硬币类型相关联：这是后续研究斯特拉达作品及其对钱币学和货币学历史的意义的不可或缺的要求。 16 世纪古物研究概况。通过定制设计的软件，图纸和描述也将被完整地输入到 Translatio Nummorum 项目的数据库中。这些材料已经过物理检查，与斯特拉达工作室的其他钱币材料相关，并在富格尔的知识赞助的背景下进行了研究。它对斯特拉达的钱币学方法进行了批判性评估，并在 16 世纪中叶古物学的背景下进行考虑。在第二阶段，将收录《哥达》第 16 至 30 卷（约 4,600 张图画），并进行同样的阐述，从而完成数字版本。这些卷涵盖了后来的罗马、拜占庭和中世纪皇帝的铸币，这些都是 16 世纪本身以及现代文艺复兴学术研究中相对未探索的领域。这将有助于分析 Strada 对这些更不寻常的来源的处理方式。整个数字化语料库的可用性将为斯特拉达的方法提供更明确的结论，并对他的作品的接受程度进行评估。斯特拉达的钱币材料的功能将与其工作室中制作的其他视觉文件相关联进行研究；富格尔委托创作的巨著将在他的政治信念以及他与帝国宫廷的密切关系的更广泛背景下进行研究；对作为斯特拉达来源的意大利、法国和德国的钱币收藏进行概述和分析，将为文艺复兴时期收藏的历史提供详细的贡献。为了完成第二阶段项目，迫切需要最后第六年的资金。

Jacopo Strada’s Magnum ac Novum Opus, a corpus of drawings of coins of the Roman Empire presents over 9.000 numismatic drawings, preserved in 30 volumes of Imperial coins now in the Forschungbibliothek Gotha, and 4 volumes of Roman Republican coins now in the British Library. Begun ca 1550 for Hans Jakob Fugger, the corpus entered the Kunstkammer of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria in 1566. Strada complemented the drawings with a separate commentary, A. A. A. NumismatΩn Antiquorum Διασκευή, preserved in two 11-volume manuscripts now in Vienna and Prague. The project aims to unite and comment the images and texts, to present these in an on-line digital edition, and to study the material in its historical and artistic context. In Phase 1 Strada’s coin-drawings in Gotha and his coin-descriptions in Vienna have been digitized and transcribed. For the first “Twelve Emperors”, the drawings (Gotha vols. 1-14; ca 4.100 drawings) and related descriptions have been entered in the database of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, and linked to one another and to the authentic coin-type that served as Strada’s source: an indispensable requirement for the subsequent investigation of Strada’s work, and its significance for the history of numismatics and of 16th-century antiquarian studies in general. By means of custom-designed software, drawings and descriptions will also be entered integrally into the database of the Translatio Nummorum project. The material has been physically examined, related to other numismatic material from Strada’s workshop, and studied within the context of Fugger’s intellectual patronage. It provides a critical assessment of Strada’s numismatic method, considered in the context of mid-16th century antiquarianism. In Phase 2, the Gotha volumes 16-30 (ca 4.600 drawings) will be included, and elaborated likewise, thus completing the digital edition. These volumes cover the coinage of the later Roman, Byzantine and Medieval Emperors, relatively unexplored fields both in the 16th century itself, and in modern studies of Renaissance scholarship. This will allow an analysis of Strada’s handling of these more unusual sources. The availability of the entire digitized corpus will afford more definitive conclusions as to Strada’s method, and an evaluation of the reception of his work. The function of Strada’s numismatic material will be studied in relation to the other visual documentation produced in his workshop; Fugger’s commission of the Magnum opus will be studied in the wider context of his political convictions and his close association with the Imperial court; and an overview and analysis of the coin-collections in Italy, France and Germany that served as Strada’s sources, will provide a detailed contribution the history of Renaissance collecting. To complete this second phase project, the funding for a final sixth year is urgently needed.