- Creator:
- Vendramin, Andrea, 1392-1478
- Published / Created:
- 4 May 1477.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 789
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice (1476-1478), Commission (dogale) to Girolamo Michiel as governor of Asolo, near Treviso.
- Description:
- On f. 1r white vinestem initial (6 lines) with long extensions in the upper and left margins; in the lower margin partial border in white vinestem, containing three medallions: the two outer ones feature the initials “I” and “M” in gold on a blue background; the larger, central one contains the coat of arms of Girolamo Michiel on a purplish red background in a green wreath., Script: Art. 1 is copied by one hand in a narrow Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, art. 2 by a hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens., and Unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Asolo (Italy) and Venice (Italy)--Politics and government
- Subject (Name):
- Vendramin, Andrea,--1392-1478
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Appointment of Girolamo Michiel as podestà of Asolo
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- Creator:
- Naldi, Naldo, 1439-ca. 1520
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1476-78]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 129
- Image Count:
- 46
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Naldo Naldi, Oratio ad Andream Vendraminium (doge of Venice 1476-78).
- Description:
- Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Gilt edges. Fragment of head endband. The spine is lined with tawed skin between supports. Covered in red silk with traces of four fastenings on each board., One illuminated initial of average quality, 3-line, gold against blue ground with gold filigree. Filled with half-length portrait of the doge dressed in red robes and a red hat against green ground. Dedication, 5 lines, in alternating lines of gold and blue majuscules followed by the first three lines of text in red majuscules., Script: Written in a round humanistic hand, below top line, by the poet Tommaso Baldinotti of Pistoia (1451-1511)., and The margins of f. 1 have been trimmed away from the written space, which was then mounted on another piece of parchment conjugate to the front pastedown; hence, any marginal decoration, which may have included a coat of arms, is now lost.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Naldi, Naldo,--1439-ca. 1520 and Vendramin, Andrea,--1392-1478
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oratio