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Title

Dogale issued by Doge Leonardo Loredan to Paolo Nani, podestà and capitaneus of Treviso

Authors

• Venice (Republic : To 1797)

Other related names

• Nani, Paolo, 1496-1551, recipient
• Bordon, Benedetto, 1450-1530, illuminator
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 59
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949521273503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903469
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4952127

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Italian

Origin

Date

1517

Place

Venice

Summary

Commission from Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice, addressed to Paolo Nani, concerning Nani's duties, rights, and obligations while holding the positions of podestà (civil administrator) and capitaneus (military commander) of Treviso, a mainland community north of Venice under Venetian control.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

34 leaves : 240 x 164 (162 x 109) mm. bound to 246 x 172 mm

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.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary 16th-century morocco over pasteboards, blind- and gold-tooled (Fogg).

Layout

Written in 25 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines.

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 red and green; rubrics mostly in red, occasionally in green; some paragraph marks in green, fewer in red.

Script

Written in a calligraphic humanistic script.

Provenance

• Ownership inscriptions: Monogram Io/TS/Pe (inside upper cover); signature with unclear last name, Victor Glm or Ulnicus (inside lower cover).
   
• 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.
   

Subjects topical

• Treviso (Italy).--Podestà
• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Codices
• Commissions
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Dogale
• Illumination
• Italian
• Italy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Miniature, Saint Paul presenting Paolo Nani to Virgin and Child, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, Winged lion of St. Mark and coat of arms, f. 1r