Accession number
PML 199040
Published
Venice, Italy, 1557, August 7
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
141 leaves (1 column, 22-23 lines), bound : vellum, illustrations ; 231 x 167 mm; binding: 242 x 176 mm
Notes
Manuscript written and illuminated in Venice, Italy, and dated August 7, 1557.
A ducal commission issued by Lorenzo Priuli, Doge of Venice (1556-1559), in 1557, when appointing Melchiorre Salomon (1527-1576) governor (Podestà) of Motta di Livenza, set
A ducal commission issued by Lorenzo Priuli, Doge of Venice (1556-1559), in 1557, when appointing Melchiorre Salomon (1527-1576) governor (Podestà) of Motta di Livenza, set
Binding
Venetian red goatskin (242 x 176 mm), 1557, for Melchiorre Salomon, gilt fillet around sides flanked by blind fillets, inner gilt frame of guillochis with marguerite in interstices within gilt fillets, gilt acorn at outer corners, rosettes at outside mid-
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Dogale
Provenance
Melchiorre Salomon (1527-1576); Payne & Foss, London (Catalogue of Books now on sale [1822], p. 42 item 1035: "with the portrait of Melchior Salomon, and a painting of Christ on the Cross, said to be by Tintoretto"; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) with h
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