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10 On the Roman Sketchbook see Edward C haney, Inigo Jones's 'Roman sketchbook', London, Roxburghe Clu (.)ДЁJonesвЂ™s annotated treatises are only one type of documentary record that he left behind.9 Ann Blair, вЂњHumanist Methods in Natural Philosophy: the Commonplace BookвЂќ, Journal of the History (.).8 John Harris and Gordon Higgott, Inigo Jones: complete architectural drawings, London, Zwemmer, 198 (.).He needed to understand classicism with enough fluency so that he could work within its limits, and then shape its language for his own use. Jones read carefully, at times obsessively, about architectural classicism in order to understand its inner workings. The simultaneous shift in architectural style and the density of annotations in books on architectural classicism by the main practitioner of that style have an obvious causal connection. JonesвЂ™s annotations were the physical traces of that architectural lineage.ДҐThe annotations survive from a turning point in the history of English architecture: the adoption of a more rigorous form of architectural classicism than had previously been used by English architects. He had hoped to ensure the success of his publishing venture by establishing the seventeenth century English link back to Palladio. Under pressure to bring out his book quickly, Leoni did not receive permission to include JonesвЂ™s annotation in time for publication of his Palladio translation. When Giacomo Leoni intended to publish his English translation of Palladio in 1715, he advertised the venture with claims that he would include in the publication вЂњseveral Notes and Observations made by Inigo Jones never printed beforeвЂќ 4. Later architects, authors and editors recognized the importance of the library as the link between English architecture and the classical tradition as it had developed in Northern Italy during the sixteenth century. In his will, Jones took special care that the books would be kept together and held in trust by his assistant, John Webb. Palladio, in four books, RevisвЂ™d, DesignвЂ™d, and PublishвЂ™d (.)Д¤JonesвЂ™s annotations are the most extensive examples of notes by a working architect of the time, and have been recognized as important almost from the moment of his death. 4 Andrea Palladio, The Architecture of A.The search for notes and other evidence of use have fueled sub-fields of the humanities including history of the book and reception studies 3. Marginal annotations by early modern readers help us to understand the reception of books and their contents 2. The importance of these annotations spreads in many directions, and have endless importance for scholars of Jones and the English architecture of the early seventeenthcentury, but also for historians of the Renaissance and its fortuna for they give us hints as to how architecture and architectural books of the fifteenth, sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were understood and interpreted 1. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001.ДЈThe annotations by Jones are a remarkable historical survival and offer tremendous evidence of how this architect read and interpreted his books. 2 On annotating in the Renaissance see Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, вЂњStudied for action: How Ga (.).

1 Sarah M cphee, вЂњThe architect as readerвЂќ, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 58, 1 (.).

If Jones began his architectural career searching for the key to architectural classicism in the details and nuances of the orders, he ultimately experienced an aesthetic discernment that was both personal and professional.

These notes are the cinematic voice-over, forever wedded to the text in a permanent gloss and record of the bookвЂ™s effect on its reader.ДўThis essay will suggest that for Jones the books he read established an expectation of Renaissance architecture that was ultimately dislodged by the visual and emotional experience of seeing the buildings themselves. JonesвЂ™s famous handwriting, cramped and adjusted to the narrowness of the margin, is the running commentary on these printed texts and images. In fact, there are likely more words by Jones in his copy of Palladio than there are words by Palladio himself.

The densest annotations are in his copy of Andrea PalladioвЂ™s I Quattro libri dellвЂ™architettura (Venice, 1601) that he purchased not long after it was published and wrote in throughout his career. Along each margin and across the plates themselves, and in the blank spaces of the page, are notes by Jones (fig.В 1). The Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford.ДЎWhen we open up the pages of the books that once belonged to the English architect Inigo Jones (1573-1652), we are bombarded with words.

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