Boston Public Library, MS q Med.143
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3476
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.143
- Title:
- Dogale granted by Duke of Venice Andrea Gritti to Governor of Verona Hieronymus Zane; in Latin and Italian
- Venice (Republic : to 1797). Doge (1523-1538 : Gritti)
- Scribe:
- Grasolorrius, Petrus
- Place:
- Venice
- Date:
- 23 February 1528.
- Language:
- ita
lat
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 28 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 238 x 167 (170 x 102) mm bound to 25 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Spinelli, Benetto
Zane, Hieronymus
Chandon de Briailles, Raoul, 1850-1908
Hotel Druot
Davis & Orioli (Firm)
- Note:
- 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 the humanistic bookhand of Gritti's secretary, Petrus Grasolorrius, in brown ink.
Decoration: Two-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...
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. 16th-century financial notes signed by Benetto Spinelli on fol. 30v. Sold by Hotel Druot 9 June 1881, lot 77. Manuscript 67 in the collection of Comte Chandon de Briailles (numbered on his bookplate inside front cover), his sale at Druot 2 December 1954, lot 14.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1955 from Davis and Orioli.
Call number: MS q Med.143.
Former call number: MS 1568.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 63-64. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444812
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/63962p31n/manifest
- Holding Institution:
