Dogale granted by Duke of Venice Andrea Gritti to Governor of Verona Hieronymus Zane : in Latin and Italian

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Title:
Dogale granted by Duke of Venice Andrea Gritti to Governor of Verona Hieronymus Zane : in Latin and Italian
Description:
NOS ANDREAS/ GRITTI/ DEI GRATIA DUX/ VENETIARUM ET/ CAETERA/ Committimus tibi nobili viro Hieronymo Zane.../...Dati in nostro ducali palatio die xxiii februarii indictione secunda M.D.xxviii/ Pet[ru]s Grasolorrius/ Secret[ariu]s subscripsi.
Creator:
Venice (Republic : to 1797). Doge (1523-1538 : Gritti)
Contributor:
Gritti, Andrea, 1455-1538
Former owner:
Spinelli, Benetto
Former owner:
Zane, Hieronymus
Former owner:
Chandon de Briailles, Raoul, 1850-1908
Scribe:
Grasolorrius, Petrus
Former owner:
Hotel Druot
Former owner:
Davis & Orioli (Firm)
Date:
February 23, 1528
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
humanistic scripts
Bookplates
Autographs
Monogrammed bindings
Ties
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Verona (Italy)--History--Administration--Early works to 1800
Extent:
28 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 238 x 167 (170 x 102) mm bound to 25 cm
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Place of origin:
Venice
Language:
Latin
Italian
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-27: Dogale.
2. fol. 27v-30v: originally blank, 16th-century notes signed by Benetto Spinelli (1483-1547) on fol. 30v.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Venice on 23 February 1528 by the scribe Petrus Grasolorrius.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Bound at the time of production for the grantee, Hieronymus Zane, his initials gilt-stamped on the front cover. 16th-century financial notes signed by Benetto Spinelli on fol. 30v. Sold by Hotel Druot 9 June 1881, lot 77. Manuscript 67 in the collection of Comte Chandon de Briailles (numbered on his bookplate inside front cover), his sale at Druot 2 December 1954, lot 14.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1955 from Davis and Orioli.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 216
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: q[ua]si aliqua causa...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (contemporary parchment ) + 28 + ii (contemporary parchment) ; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ ; modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
Layout: Single column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in the humanistic bookhand of Gritti's secretary, Petrus Grasolorrius, in brown ink.
Decoration: Two-line red epigraphic capitals in left margin throughout. Full-page frontispiece on fol. 1 of gold scrolling floriate vines with pale blue and purple flowers on a black background, the arms of the Zane family (an otter rampant) in a cartouche in the lower margin, St. Jerome (patron of the new governor) in a medallion in the right margin, a bird in flight in the left margin, and the winged lion of Venice in the upper margin; the first few lines of text in gold on a blue background taking up the upper 1/3 of the text block.
Binding: Original reddish-brown gilt tooled and stamped goatskin over pasteboards, paper pastedowns, blind-fillet turn-ins, ties lacking, H.Z. gilt-stamped on front cover.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 63-64.
Notes (language):
In Latin and Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018702
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.143
MS 1568 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789031