Item Summary

Dogale issued by Agostino Barbarigo, doge of Venice, conferring on Giovanni Cappello the title of procuratore di San Marco.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Dogale, 1486-1501?, conferring title on Giovanni Cappello].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 159
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfx71b177b
Publisher
[Venice, Italy], [between 1486 and 1501?]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1486-1501
Extent
32 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 259 x 183 (157 x 105) mm bound to 270 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Presumably first owned by Giovanni Cappello. Intermediate provenance is unknown. William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th duke of Hamilton owned the manuscript until being auctioned by Sotheby's in 1882. Later Ellis sold it to George Gordon King. His widow sold it at the Anderson Galleries in 1926 to Robert Garrett of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897. He recorded the acquisition with a note in ink on the inside front cover, "R.G. May 1926." His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 375-377.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Nos augustinus barbadico dei gracia dux uenetiarum et cetera. Comittimus tibi nobili uiro domino Joanni capello procuratori ecclesie nostre sancti Marci apostoli et euangeliste patroni et uexi- liferi nostri. Quatenus officium procurarie antedicte nunc tibi commissum facere et exercere debeas iuxta tenorem infrascripti capitularis tibi nunc datum et nostra bulla plumbea pendenti ad maiorem certitu- dinem comuniti ..."
Explicit: "Que licentia notetur in notatorio Cancellarie et addatur hoc decretum nostrum in capitularibus procuratorum suprascriptorum ut omnino obseruetur."
Ms. document.
Title devised by cataloger.
List of 54 running titles (fol. 1r-4v) beginning: "Incipiunt capitula Comissionis Dominorum procuratorum Ecclesie sancti Marci apostoli et evangeliste. Capitulum iuramenti Dominorum Procuratorum Sancti Marci. i ..."
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i + 32 ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 24 long lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; red roman numerals mark chapters in the margins.
Decoration: Opening page (fol. 7r) has two historiated initials and a full border: a 10-line initial N containing St. Mark holding book in left hand and a 5-line initial I enclosing a half-figure of St. John the Baptist. Full floriate and foliate border with two putti holding the Cappello heraldic shield. Colors blue, red, green and brown. Within the text 1- and 2-line initials of blue and red, with some gold and blue.
Binding Note
Contemporaneous binding. Venice, late 15th century. Brown calf over oak boards (7 mm thick). Blind-embossed in concentric frames filled with floral and cross saltire-shaped toolings. Metal cornerpieces and a quatrefoil-shaped brass boss in the center of both the front and back covers. Remnants of leather straps and shell-shaped metal catchplates. Multi-colored endbands. Gilt edges.

Discovery Information

Subject
Procuratoria di San Marco, Venice—Early works to 1800
Venice (Italy)—History—697-1508—Sources
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
historiated initials
illuminated manuscripts
Decorated edges
Blind tooled bindings
Wooden boards
Bosses (Bindings)
Cornerpieces (Furniture)
Clasps
Gilt edges
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
70

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/02d43b61-82ab-4e6b-bd4f-b56ebe431514/manifest