(Q17210)
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28 November 2023
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Dogale granted by Duke of Venice Andrea Gritti to Governor of Verona Hieronymus Zane : in Latin and Italian].
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Venice (Republic : to 1797). Doge (1523-1538 : Gritti)
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Grasolorrius, Petrus
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Spinelli, Benetto
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Zane, Hieronymus
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Chandon de Briailles, Raoul, 1850-1908
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Davis & Orioli (Firm)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Italian--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Verona (Italy)--History--Administration--Early works to 1800
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23 February 1528.
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Extent: 28 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 238 x 167 (170 x 102) mm bound to 25 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin and Italian.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: q[ua]si aliqua causa...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (contemporary parchment ) + 28 + ii (contemporary parchment) ; 1-210 38 ; modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
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Layout: Single column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
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Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, the hand of Gritti's secretary Petrus Grasolorrius, in brown ink.
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Decoration: 2-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...
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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.
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Origin: Written in Venice on 23 February 1528 by the scribe Petrus Grasolorrius.
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Provenance: Bound at the time of production for the grantee, Hieronymus Zane, his initials gilt-stamped on the front cover. Sixteenth-century financial notes signed by Benetto Spinelli on fol. 30v. Sold by Hotel Druot 9 June 1881, lot 77 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 52336). Manuscript 67 in the collection of Comte Chandon de Briailles (numbered on his bookplate inside front cover), his...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1955 from Davis and Orioli (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 57070).
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Call number: MS q Med.143.
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Former call number: MS 1568.
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Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 63-64.
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4 December 2023
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