Harvard University, MS Typ 336

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11128

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 336

Title:

Libro de l'osservanza de le cerimonie de la Chiesa di Santo Marco de la Città di Vinetia

Author:

Vitale, Giovanni

Giovanni Vitale WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

The main text is in Latin, with rubrics and preliminaries in Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 34 leaves, bound : vellum ; 19 cm.

Note:

Dedication copy to Alvise Mocenigo, probably Luigi Mocenigo, the Doge of Venice (d. 1577). The Mocenigo arms are painted in color on f. 1r.
Written in three calligraphic scripts: roman for the preface, gothic rotunda for the Tavola, and italic for the main text. All are in black and red, in one column.
The author, probably also the scribe, signs the preface "Pretre Giovanni Vitale di Chiesa de San Marco".
Bound in 19th-century white vellum over boards with an embossed design.
In a tray case, 20 cm.
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Calligraphy

Manuscripts, Renaissance

customaries

Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097606990203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3948909

Holding Institution:

Harvard University