Venice (Republic : To 1797), enacting jurisdiction.
Published / Created:
1569.
Call Number:
MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289
Image Count:
218
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. , Numbering: [1] blank leaf, [1], [1]-160, [1] pages, [16] blank leaves, [24] pages. , Manuscript on vellum. , Binding: volume bound in white vellum over boards. , Contains an index at the end., Illuminated page begins on [1], 3rd group of paging, opposite of page 2. , Text on the first page within decorated border and initials in gold and colors, with the emblems of Venice and Soranzos' coat of arms, unfinished. Capitals and titles in text in red, all edges in gilt., Illuminated first page begins: "MDLXIX. Ivro ego Ioanes Svperantivs Eqves Consiliarivs Venetiarum Sexterij Sancti Pauli ad avangelia sancta Dei, quod donec ero Consiliarius,...", This decorated manuscript, known as a Giuramento, contains the oath of the government-appointed counselor of the sestiere (district) of San Polo in Venice. In 1569, the Venetian patrician Giovanni Soranzo held this position, and he commissioned this illuminated legal document, the first page of which includes his name in large golden letters; his patron saint, John the Baptist, in the upper left corner; and his coat of arms in the lower margin. A Giuramento was issued to all six counselors of Venice and included a description of the doge's responsibilities. Counselors were members of the Collegio, the government’s highest executive committee. Two years before his appointment as counselor, Soranzo had served as the Venetian governor of Bergamo, in northern Italy., Volume inscribed by Giovanni Soranzo on the page (page [1], 2nd group of paging) preceding the illuminated page about his reelection as counselor in April of 1574. It appears that this manuscript was his personal copy, which bears his name in the illuminated page with the date 1569. , Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b451624, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2019. MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289, Description based on print version record. , and Written in humanistic cursive in Latin and Italian.
Publisher:
producer not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Venice, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Loyalty oaths, Law, City councils, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Italian
BEIN Zi +4524: For fuller description see collation slip in volume. Variant copy. [7], 2-137, [1] leaves, illustrated, 30 cm (fol). Leaf 2 numbered with a broken numeral "2"; leaf 29 so numbered (misprinted 26 in the preceding). Imperfect copy. Bookplate of A. H. (monogram AH)., BEIN Zi +7046: Imperfect copy: missing leaves pi1-3, pi6, a1, a5, a8, b6, f3, i1, n3, o4, s1, t1, u4, and z4 (blank) wanting. Leaf [4] (first count) bound at end of volume., BEIN Zi +7046: Provenance: Bookplate of Antoine Pol of Paris. Early manuscript ownership note of a certain Ad. de Beauchamp on front pastedown. Modern manuscript note regarding publication in French on first leaf. Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, May 1964., BEIN Zi +7046: Binding: brown leather binding. Red sprinkling on all edges. Gold-tooled title on spine: Opera Politian / Decame., BEIN Zi +7046: Number 2 of 3 titles bound together., Title from leaf [1]/1r., Colophon (leaf z3r): Finisce lo elegantissimo Decamerone: cio e le cento novelle detto: dello excellentissimo poeta Giova[n]ni Bocchaccio da certaldo. Impresso i[n] Venetia per Giova[n]ni & Gregorio de gregorii fratelli. Impera[n]te Augustino Barbarigo felicissimo principe: nellanno della humana recuperatione. MCCCC. Lxxxxii. ad di .xx. de Giugno., Printed in type 23:82R., Signatures: pi⁶; a⁸ b-y⁶z⁴., Leaves pi6 and z4 blank., 113 woodcuts., and Printed guide letters.
Manuscript on parchment of Jacopo Ariani (?), 200 Sonnets addressed to a lady called Laura. With Alberto Maffei, Colophon in the form of a sonnet addressed to the readers
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by Alberto Maffei in a small calligraphic Humanistica Semitextualis Formata., Each sonnet opens with a Capital in gold ink, the three subsequent stanzas with alternating red and blue Capitals. On the opening page (f. 2r), however, the opening Capitals are in gold on a square blue background dotted with gold, above each of the two sonnets floral ornaments have been painted in red and gold ink and in the lower margin there is a medallion within a gold wreath adorned with ribbons and containing the coat of arms of the Ariani family flanked by the initials "I.A.". ff. 1 and 52 are stained purple and the text of artt. 1 and 3 is written in gold ink, the headings being executed in silver ink. On both pages silver and gold floral ornaments in three margins. The ones in the lower margins end in Capital "A" (for "Albertus")., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue velvet over cardboard with blue watered-silk doublure. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ariani, Jacopo.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
