Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Dogale

Authors

• Loredan, Leonardo, 1436-1521 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013091845.html)

Other related names

• Bordon, Benedetto, 1450-1530, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/67854568)
• Contarini, Marcantonio, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/88741140)
• Dunn, George, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/55959601)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 143
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 188

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Venice, Italy

Summary

This dogale consists of a commission issued by Doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) to Marc Antonio Contarini (1485-1546), captain of a fleet proceeding to Flanders. The text opens with a lavish all'antica style frontispiece in the style of Benedetto Bordon that includes the Contarini arms (first and fourth or, three bendlets azure) in the right margin, and an oval cartouche in the lower margin depicting the Virgin and Child blessing Contarini in the presence of Saints James and Helena. The script has been attributed to the noted scribe Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. The body of the text is in Latin; folios 40r-58r are in the Venetian dialect of Italian. The volume appears to be housed in its original binding.

Notes

• Granted by Leonardo Lauredano, Doge of Venice, 1501-21, to Marcantonio Contarini, captain of a fleet proceeding to Flanders
   
• Harrsen noted that: "James Wardrop of Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1957, attributes manuscript to Tagliente, about whom Mr. Wardrop has written"; this scribe is assumed to be the Venetian calligrapher Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
   
• By an Order of the Council of 2 May 1504, the latest date quoted in this manuscript, backers were found to enable the Venetian galleys to sail for Flanders; it must have been shortly after this that the commission was written out appointing Contarini captain of the fleet (from Wolf, 1937, p. 158)
   

Extent

Iii+59; 242 x 152 bound to 247 x 161

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-6 (10)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original brown morocco, sides with gilt arabesque foliate borders and arabesque center ornaments, in the Aldine style, gilt edges, rebacked, in cloth case

Layout

One column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in light brown ink; written area: 158 x 91 mm

Decoration

The first page (fol. 1r) within a full all'antica border of Renaissance foliate designs in gold on a red and blue ground, the Contarini arms in the outer border supported by a putto, and a miniature at the foot of the page; the first few words in gold on a blue panel at the head of the page and Contarini's name in gold on a smaller red panel in the text; capitals alternately in red and blue

Script

Humanistic

Scribe: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente?

Provenance

• Bought by George Dunn, May, 1903; his sale, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 553; to Young (wrongly stated to be described in Tregaskis, Cat. 440, 1899, no. 7, facs); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2060, no. 188.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 157-58, no. 143.

Keywords

• Dogale
• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Notable binding
• Illumination
• Heraldry
• History

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Commission, in Latin; incipit: Nos Leonardus Lauredanus Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum. Et. C. [fol. 1r]; explicit: ... statutam per nostrum consilium decem. [fol. 39v]
• fol. 40r — Additional notes, in Italian; incipit: Che in nome de M. Jesu Christo et in bona gratia al viazo de Fiandra... [fol. 40r]; explicit: ... et mandarli per debitori a palazo fino la integra satisfation: [fol. 58r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, George Dunn
• Insert recto — Print catalog entry
• fol. 1r — Full all'antica border
• fol. 1r — Coat-of-Arms, Contarini, first and fourth or, three bendlets azure
• fol. 1r — Cartouche in lower margin, Virgin and Child with Marcantonio Contarini, Saint James, and Saint Helena
• Inside back cover — Print catalog entry