(Q9141)
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Ordre de la nef
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Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805
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Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
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Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761
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1381.
14. century
1381Gregorian
1381Gregorian
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Extent: 21 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 323 x 232 (240 x 168) mm bound to 332 x 236 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Origin: 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.
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Ms. codex.
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Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.
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Foliation: Parchment, 21 + i (paper); [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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Layout: Written in 40 long lines; ruled in ink.
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Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
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Decoration: 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...
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Binding: 18th-century vellum.
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Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.
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Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
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Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
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Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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