Commission to a podestà, Bergamo.

Accession number:

MS M.203

Title:

Created:

Venice, Italy, 1574.

Binding:

Venetian, 16th-century red morocco, richly gilt in the oriental style with border and central panel having deeply sunk compartments, blocked in gold; in center of upper cover the Lion of St. Mark; unidentified arms of the podestà on lower cover.

Credit:

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.

Description:

87 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum ; 230 x 160 mm

Provenance:

Seventeenth-century inscription on fol. 87 has name of a then owner, Griermus Cornelio; D. Morgand (inv. no. 26435); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ed. Rahir, Paris, in August 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).

Notes:

Ms.; written in the Palace of the Doge, signed on fol. 85 by Aloysius Zantro, secretary of the Council of Ten, and dated July 24, 1574.

Script:

humanistic script

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

16th century

Genres:

Manuscripts