Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 143

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DS ID:

DS4496

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 143

Title:

Dogale

Author:

Loredan, Leonardo, 1436-1521

Leonardo Loredan WIKIDATA

Artist:

Bordon, Benedetto, 1450-1530

Benedetto Bordone WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice, Italy

Venice TGN

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+59; 242 x 152 bound to 247 x 161; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Contarini, Marcantonio

Marcantonio Contarini WIKIDATA

Dunn, George

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Granted by Leonardo Lauredano, Doge of Venice, 1501-21, to Marcantonio Contarini, captain of a fleet proceeding to Flanders
Harrsen noted that: "James Wardrop of Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1957, attributes manuscript to Tagliente, about whom Mr. Wardrop has written"; this scribe is assumed to be the Venetian calligrapher Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
By an Order of the Council of 2 May 1504, the latest date quoted in this manuscript, backers were found to enable the Venetian galleys to sail for Flanders; it must have been shortly after this that the commission was written out appointing Contarini captain of the fleet (from Wolf, 1937, p. 158)
Binding: Original brown morocco, sides with gilt arabesque foliate borders and arabesque center ornaments, in the Aldine style, gilt edges, rebacked, in cloth case
Layout: One column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in light brown ink; written area: 158 x 91 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Scribe: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente?
Decoration: The first page (fol. 1r) within a full all'antica border of Renaissance foliate designs in gold on a red and blue ground, the Contarini arms in the outer border supported by a putto, and a miniature at the foot of the page; the first few words in gold on a blue panel at the head of the page and Contarini's name in gold on a smaller red panel in the text; capitals alternately in red...
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2060, no. 188.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 157-58, no. 143.
Provenance: Bought by George Dunn, May, 1903; his sale, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 553; to Young (wrongly stated to be described in Tregaskis, Cat. 440, 1899, no. 7, facs); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Dogale

Sixteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

Heraldry

History

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_143.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_143/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia