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Title

Instructions to Nicolaus Theupulo

Authors

• Gritti, Andrea, 1455-1538

Other related names

• Theupulo, Nicolaus, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 1134
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942585743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191730504
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4258574

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with occasional paragraphs in Italian

Origin

Date

1525

Place

Venice, Italy

Summary

Instructions to Nicolaus Theupulo on his appointment by the Doge of Venice to govern Brescia for one year. At this time, Brescia had been under Venetian control for a century, but had experienced recent hostilities with the French; as such, the instructions mention events and governmental decisions from the 15th and early 16th centuries, as well as setting out specific guidelines for Theupulo's tenure in Brescia. Instructions are followed by a table of contents, listing the 76 parts of the instructions (each paragraph is numbered in the text). Notarized by Petrus Grafoldarius.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

31 leaves : 228 x 160 (160 x 100) mm. bound to 236 x 171 mm

Collation

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 31 + iii (modern paper); 1⁶(-6) 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰ 4⁶; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern half calf.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Decorated initials "S.H.D.E." (f. 1r); inscriptional capitals in red and blue throughout; illuminated border (f. 2r) has a gray background with vines and flowers in gold, green, pink, red, yellow, blue, light gray, and orange, as well as three pastoral scenes, depicting the lion of St. Mark (the symbol of Venice), a coat-of-arms depicting the corno ducale (the ducal hat of the doges of Venice), trees, mountains, and bodies of water; authorial heading in gold against a gold background, illustrated to look like a stone inscription.

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script, with inscriptional (square) capitals.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard Lesnick (Philadelphia), 1960.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Notarial documents
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Illumination
• Legal
• Accounts

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Illuminated border, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Lion of St. Mark, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Tree, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Coat of arms with corno ducale, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Illuminated heading, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 2r