Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Ordre de la nef
• Charles III, King of Naples, 1345-1386

Other related names

• Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner
• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner
• Soranzo, Jacopo, 1686-1761, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615105
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487451

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1381

Place

France

Summary

Statutes in 151 chapters of the Order of the Ship, founded in Naples in 1381 by King Carlo III 'di Durazzo'.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

11-line initial depicting a ship without sails held up by two angels, in red, blues, lavender, brown, and gold. In a colored border at the bottom of the page is the coat of arms of a branch of the Malespina family, surrounded by two angels (f. 1r). Initials in alternating red and blue (f. 1r-9r), two with penwork ornamentation (f. 5r); initials are unfinished in the remainder of the text, but with guide letters visible.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
   
• Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
   
• Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Statutes
• Manuscripts, French--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Illumination
• French
• France
• Legal

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, Two angels holding ship without sails, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Miniature, Two angels holding coat of arms (Malespina family), f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, f. 1r
• fol. 5r — Penwork initial, Initial E, f. 5r
• fol. 5r — Penwork initial, Initial L, f. 5r