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This manuscript is a commission issued by Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, addressed to Andrea Valerio, concerning Valerio's duties, rights, and obligations while holding the position of podestà (civil administrator) of Piran, a mainland community in Slovenia under Venetian control. The first folio is elaborately illuminated with classical elements surrounding a text block with a background painted as a torn sheet of parchment; the remaining text, written in a humanistic cursive hand, is undecorated and concludes with a sentence in a second hand recording that it was issued from the dogal palace on 19 October 1502. The dogale text, in Latin, is followed by a few texts and accounts in Italian.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+28+i; 239 x 160 mm bound to 246 x 171 mm; Foliation: Foliation in ink, upper right and/or lower right recto; Collation: 1 (28, +1 +28)
One column of twenty-four lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, horizontals ruled in faint ink; paragraphs marked by square capitals written in text ink in the left margin; written area: 150 x 105 mm
Humanistic Cursive
Illuminated front folio in Venetian-Paduan or all'antica style, with classical architectural elements supported by a pair of leopards and the background of the text painted as a torn sheet of parchment
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Collation note: first and last folia are two pieces of parchment, joined
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Venice, Italy
19 October 1502
Nineteenth-century half-morocco
Latin; Italian
"N. 262, n. 368, and n. 410 are written on a French dealer's card bearing the stamped dates 10 Juill. 1880 and 10 Févr. 1881, and on the back the address M. Marquis, 208 bis, rue Grenelle St. Germain. -- Purchased (9 Sept. 1881) from Bailieu, of Paris." (deRicci)
Venice, Italy
19 October 1502
Latin; Italian
"N. 262, n. 368, and n. 410 are written on a French dealer's card bearing the stamped dates 10 Juill. 1880 and 10 Févr. 1881, and on the back the address M. Marquis, 208 bis, rue Grenelle St. Germain. -- Purchased
This manuscript is a commission issued by Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, addressed to Andrea Valerio, concerning Valerio's duties, rights, and obligations while holding the position of podestà (civil administrator) of Piran, a mainland community in Slovenia under Venetian control. The first folio is elaborately illuminated with classical elements surrounding a text block with a background painted as a torn sheet of parchment; the remaining text, written in a humanistic cursive hand, is undecorated and concludes with a sentence in a second hand recording that it was issued from the dogal palace on 19 October 1502. The dogale text, in Latin, is followed by a few texts and accounts in Italian.
Collation note: first and last folia are two pieces of parchment, joined
Humanistic Cursive
Illuminated front folio in Venetian-Paduan or all'antica style, with classical architectural elements supported by a pair of leopards and the background of the text painted as a torn sheet of parchment
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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