(Q20988)
Statements
Loredan, Leonardo, 1436-1521
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Bordon, Benedetto, 1450-1530
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Contarini, Marcantonio
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Dogale
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Extent: iii+59; 242 x 152 bound to 247 x 161; parchment
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Granted by Leonardo Lauredano, Doge of Venice, 1501-21, to Marcantonio Contarini, captain of a fleet proceeding to Flanders
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Harrsen noted that: "James Wardrop of Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1957, attributes manuscript to Tagliente, about whom Mr. Wardrop has written"; this scribe is assumed to be the Venetian calligrapher Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
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By an Order of the Council of 2 May 1504, the latest date quoted in this manuscript, backers were found to enable the Venetian galleys to sail for Flanders; it must have been shortly after this that the commission was written out appointing Contarini captain of the fleet (from Wolf, 1937, p. 158)
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Binding: Original brown morocco, sides with gilt arabesque foliate borders and arabesque center ornaments, in the Aldine style, gilt edges, rebacked, in cloth case
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Layout: One column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in light brown ink; written area: 158 x 91 mm
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Script: Humanistic
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Script: Scribe: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente?
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Decoration: The first page (fol. 1r) within a full all'antica border of Renaissance foliate designs in gold on a red and blue ground, the Contarini arms in the outer border supported by a putto, and a miniature at the foot of the page; the first few words in gold on a blue panel at the head of the page and Contarini's name in gold on a smaller red panel in the text; capitals alternately in red...
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2060, no. 188.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 157-58, no. 143.
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Provenance: Bought by George Dunn, May, 1903; his sale, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 553; to Young (wrongly stated to be described in Tregaskis, Cat. 440, 1899, no. 7, facs); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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