Item Summary

Dogale issued by Pietro Lando as doge of Venice (1539-1545). Commissions Giovanni Francesco Basadona to be podestà of Cologna (now Cologna Veneta), a commune ruled by Venice and located in the Veneto.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Dogale, 1542, commissioning Giovanni Francesco Basadone as podestà of Cologna]
Call Number
Garrett MS. 161
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckp78gw676
Publisher
[Venice, Italy], [1542]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1542
Extent
77 leaves : parchment ; 232 x 158 (162 x 105) mm bound to 239 x 171 mm.
Provenance
Owned by Giovanni Francesco Basadona. Intermediate provenance is unknown. Owned by Thomas Philip Earl de Grey. Sold through Myers and Company to Ernest Dressel North in 1925 to Robert Garrett of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897. Garrett's 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 378-379.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Nos Petrus Lando Dei Gratia Dvx Venetiarum Et Cetera. Committimus tibi nobili viro Joanni Francisco Basadonnæ dilecto ciui et fideli nostro, quod vadas et sis Potestas de nostro mandato Coloniæ per menses sexdecim et tantum plus quantum successor tuus illuc uenire distulerit ..."
Explicit: "Ivrasti honorem et proficuum Dominii nostri eundo stando et redeundo. Datum in nostro Ducali Palatio Die xxv novembris Indictione prima M.D. xxxxii. H. Murianus, Secretarius."
Ms. document.
Title devised by cataloger.
Administrative documents and notes relating to Giovanni Francesco Basadona dated 27 November, 1542 (fol. 73v-76r).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (modern) + 77 + ii (modern) ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Roman numerals ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 25 long lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated.
Decoration: Half-page miniature of Giovanni Francesco Basadona kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and Christ child, in a mountainous landscape, with full border with a medallion set in each side: the Lion of St. Mark (top); St. John bearing a cup (left); St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata (right); the arms of Basadona family of Venice (bottom) (fol. 1r). 1-line red initials.
Origin: Completed in Venice on 25 November 1542 by Hieronymus Murianus, secretarius to Pietro Lando, doge of Venice.
Binding Note
Later binding. England(?), 18th or early 19th century. Red velvet over wooden boards (4 mm thick). Leather frame along edges with gold-stamped foliate design. Gilt edges. 2 metal cornerpieces, and metal clasp.

Discovery Information

Subject
Cologna Veneta (Italy)—Politics and government—Early works to 1800
Venice (Italy)—History—1508-1797—Sources
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
illuminations (paintings)
Gold tooled bindings
Wooden boards
Velvet bindings
Metal clasps
Gilt edges

Physical Characteristics

File Count
166

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fe951b63-c0c3-498e-a888-d128aa20a5f5/manifest