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Statutes in 151 chapters of the Order of the Ship, founded in Naples in 1381 by King Carlo III 'di Durazzo'.
Support: parchment; Extent: 21 leaves : 323 x 232 (240 x 168) mm. bound to 332 x 236 mm; Foliation: Parchment, 21 + i (paper); [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 40 long lines; ruled in ink.
Written in a Gothic book script.
11-line initial depicting a ship without sails held up by two angels, in red, blues, lavender, brown, and gold. In a colored border at the bottom of the page is the coat of arms of a branch of the Malespina family, surrounded by two angels (f. 1r). Initials in alternating red and blue (f. 1r-9r), two with penwork ornamentation (f. 5r); initials are unfinished in the remainder of the text, but with guide letters visible.
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.
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.
France
Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386.
18th-century vellum.
Middle French
Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.
France
Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386.
Middle French
Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5
Sold by Laurence Witten
Statutes in 151 chapters of the Order of the Ship, founded in Naples in 1381 by King Carlo III 'di Durazzo'.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.
Written in a Gothic book script.
11-line initial depicting a ship without sails held up by two angels, in red, blues, lavender, brown, and gold. In a colored border at the bottom of the page is the coat of arms of a branch of the Malespina family, surrounded by two angels (f. 1r). Initials in alternating red and blue (f. 1r-9r), two with penwork ornamentation (f. 5r); initials are unfinished in the remainder of the text, but with guide letters visible.
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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