Campbell 1987

Quelle: http://census.bbaw.de/easydb/censusID=60460

On the occasion of a major revision of the CENSUS-Database in 2002, some extensive alterations have been made to the entry of the Codex Destailleur D in order to improve the accessability of its context.
The level of hierarchy of individual folios, which was almost completely missing in the original entry, has been inserted, whilst the information pertaining to the order and allocation of the folios within the former three volumes has been discarded, at least for the time being, as this was not marked systematically before.
This issue, together with the attribution of the drawings to their respective author, the identity of the latter, the dating and further detailed observations are discussed extensively by Bernd Kulawik in his recent study/edition of the Codex (cf. bibl.).
But as his work concerning the drawings after the antique is still in progress, his suggestions, differing from the ones given by Ian Campbell, were not yet transferred into the database. Another revision of the Codex entry will, therefore, be made as soon as the results of Kulawik's work are published. 
Just as a hint to the significance of his propositions we note here that he gives the year 1545 as terminus ante quem for the drawings after the antique, in contrast to the "3rd quarter of 16th century" given by the CENSUS (for his argumentation cf. the first volume of Kulawik's study). [Timo Strauch]

The Codex Destailleur "D" is the misleading 
title given to a collection of 16th century drawings, which, before entering the Kunstbibliothek, were bound in three separate volumes. One volume consisted entirely of drawings of modern buildings. Another (which we call "old vol. 2") was a mixture of drawings of modern buildings in Rome and antiquities in Rome, Tivoli, Ancona and Arles. The third (our "old vol. 3") comprised drawings of the Theatre of Marcellus, the Colosseum, and the Baths of Diocletian, Caracalla and Trajan.
Old vol. 3 is ordered by pagination numbers. Dome sheets are stuck together. Old vol. 2 has a mixture of page numbers and numbers applying to particular drawings or subjects. Often the sheets are double pages with breaks in the sequence of numbering, indicating that other pages were to be interleaved. However, on one such sheet, fol. 72 r, one drawing strays across the page divide, strongly suggesting that the sheets were never bound in the way originally intended.
The volumes do not appear to be the sketchbooks of one man as Berckenhagen (cf. bibl.) argued, but a collection of drawings by different architects, chiefly French, although the occasional use of Italian in labels may indicate some Italian collaboration.
The majority of the drawings after the antique appear to be by two very similar hands, whom we call 'Anonymous Destailleur "D" 1 and 2', with a few by a third hand or more, whom we label 'Anonymous Destailleur "D" ?'. Because the hands appear so similar on the photographs we have used, our attribution should be regarded as tentative. One hand (see fols. 3 and 66) appears to be identical with that of the so-called K.d.A.D, i.e. the draughtsman of the related drawings in the Albertina, which Egger (cf. bibl.) regarded as copies. In fact a comparison of the drawings reveals that occasionally the Vienna drawings contain details not found on their Berlin equivalents, suggesting that they form part of some joint project, or at least depend on some common prototype. Ackermann (cf. bibl.) [Ian Campbell]