Harvard University, MS Typ 470

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10891

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 470

Title:

Regulations addressed to the provveditori of the island of Cephalonia

Author:

Venice (Republic : To 1797)

Republic of Venice WIKIDATA

Date:

1581 Nov. 28.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (202 leaves) : vellum ; 24 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Michieli family

Michiel family WIKIDATA

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904

Samuel Putnam Avery WIKIDATA

Note:

Written by an unidentified scribe in an informal cursive hand in brown ink, rubrics in red in a more formal hand.
Title supplied by cataloger.
The document is addressed on the last page to "Nobilibus et sapientibus viris Joanni Michaeli Proviceptori et successoribus" and dated. Another hand has dated the receipt of the ms. 20 May 1582.
Bound in original red morocco in Venice, elaborately carved, painted, and edges gauffered and painted. The front is decorated with the lion of Venice, the back with the arms of the Michieli family.
In a brown morocco pull-off case, 26 cm.
Bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery.
Purchased with the Archibald Cary Coolidge bequest, 1941.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Armorial bindings

Greece--Cephalonia (Municipality)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098354870203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:425501329

Holding Institution:

Harvard University