University of Pennsylvania, LJS 59
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS743
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 59
- Title:
- Dogale issued by Doge Leonardo Loredan to Paolo Nani, podestà and capitaneus of Treviso
- Author:
- Venice (Republic : To 1797). Doge (1501-1521 : Loredan)
- Artist:
- Bordon, Benedetto, 1450-1530
- Place:
- Venice
- Date:
- 1517.
- Language:
- Latin and Italian
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 34 leaves : parchment ; 240 x 164 (162 x 109) mm bound to 246 x 172 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Stella, Giovanni Pietro, 16th century
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, i + 34 + i; 1-310 44; [1-34], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords on the lower right verso of the last leaf of each gathering.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in a calligraphic humanistic script.
Decoration: Full title page illumination showing Saint Paul presenting the kneeling Paolo Nani to the enthroned Virgin and Child, surrounded by a border of white and gold grisaille on blue, incorporating the Venetian winged lion of San Marco at the top and arms at the bottom, attributed to Benedetto Bordon (f. 1r); square capitals in left margin at beginning of paragraphs, alternating between...
Binding: Contemporary 16th-century morocco over pasteboards, blind- and gold-tooled (Fogg).
Origin: Issued from the Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace), Venice, dated 25 May 1517 (f. 31v).
Ownership inscription: signature with unclear last name, Victor Glm or Ulnicus (inside lower cover).
Formerly owned by Giovanni Pietro Stella, grand chancellor of Venice from 1517 to 1523 (Io/ST/Pe, inside upper cover; identified by Helena Szepe, University of South Florida)
Formerly held in a private collection in Würzburg, Germany.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1997 (bookplate inside upper cover).
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949521273503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vp92/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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