Ms. codex. In Latin and Italian. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: q[ua]si aliqua causa... Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (contemporary parchment ) + 28 + ii (contemporary parchment) ; 1-210 38 ; modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each recto. Layout: Single column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, the hand of Gritti's secretary Petrus Grasolorrius, in brown ink. 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... 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. Origin: Written in Venice on 23 February 1528 by the scribe Petrus Grasolorrius. 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... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1955 from Davis and Orioli (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 57070). Call number: MS q Med.143. Former call number: MS 1568. Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 63-64.
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