Doges and families of Venice

Description

Title: Doges and families of Venice
Published / Created: [ca. 1553-1554]
Publication Place: Venice
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Note on the reign of the first Doge of Venice, Pauluccio Anafesto (697-717). 2) History of Venice from its legendary foundation to 695. 3) Alphabetical list of Venetian noble families, with their coats of arms and notes on their history. 4) History of the Doges of Venice up to Francesco Venier, elected 1554, d. 1556, with their coats of arms
Description: In Italian.
Script: Copied by two hands. A (ff.IIr and 1r-84v): Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; B (ff. 85r-170r): Humanistica Cursiva Currens.
Painted coats of arms, those in art. 3 in decorative cartouches. Large decorative painted initials for each family name.
The top and the lower corners of the final leaves badly damaged by moist, with loss of some text.
Binding: Date? Pasteboard.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 172 :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper.
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Italy.
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic): Heraldry
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Nobility
History
Subjects: Heraldry
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Nobility > Italy
Venice (Italy) > History
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Doges and Families of Venice. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.