University of Pennsylvania, LJS 304

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS613

Shelfmark:

LJS 304

Title:

Dogale issued by Doge Alvise Mocenigo to Girolamo Pruli, podestà of Brescia.

Author:

Venice (Republic : To 1797). Doge (1570-1577 : Mocenigo)

Alvise I Mocenigo WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

1574.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 210 leaves : parchment ; 218 x 146 (141 x 88) mm bound to 228 x 172 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Signed in the Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace), Venice, dated 6 March 1574 (f. 31v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 210 + i (modern paper); 1-21¹⁰; [1-210], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Vertical catchwords on the lower right verso of the last leaf of each gathering.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Binding: 16th-century Venetian morocco over pasteboards, gilt-lacquered sunk-compartment ornamentation, with the winged lion of San Marco on the upper cover and an armorial stamp on the lower cover; remnants of ties; pastedowns, endpapers, and headbands renewed.
Decoration: Opening lines in gold display capitals (f. 1v).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 43, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

commissions (permissions)

Italy--Brescia

Brescia (Italy). Podestà

Italy--Venice

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949582773503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37p8td7s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania