Manuscript contains a collection of ordinances for the use of officials of the Venetian Republic, laying out different instructions for a new governor to follow
Alternative Title:
Appointments by the doge
Description:
Manuscripts on vellum; written in humanistic cursive in Latin and Italian. Each volume shows a different and particular hand of execution with regard to illumination as well as to writing., Binding: each volume bound in white vellum over boards., Pages numbered in black ink, upper left verso and right recto; leaves on volume 6 numbered on upper right recto., Title devised by cataloger., Numbering: volume 1: 33 pages (pages 31-33 blank); volume 2: 90 pages (page 90 blank); volume 3: 56 pages (page 56 blank); volume 4: 52 pages (pages 50-52 blank); volume 5: 118 pages (pages 117-118 blank) ; volume 6: 56 leaves., The first page of each volume has the emblem of Venice and the coat of arms of the appointee for governership within a decorative border. The appointee's coat of arms is at bottom, while the winged Lion of Saint Mark is in the upper field. That the Lion is poised on both earth and water is significant: its stance alludes to Venice's power on land and sea. The beast also holds an open book, which refers to Venice's legendary association with Saint Mark the Evangelist. Also notable in the decorative border of volume 3 are the Angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary at upper left and right corners, two bishop saints at center left and right, and Saint Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Egypt at lower left and right corners. All volumes have colored and calligraphed initials on first pages and colored capitals in text in colors throughout volumes., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b451623, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2019. MssJ V53 no.1 Rare26 11-0287, and Description based on print version record.
Publisher:
producer not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy), Italy, Venice, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, Politics and government, Law, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Italian
Half-length portrait in an oval frame, a young woman turned slightly left, facing front, wears a black veil over head and shoulders. She wears a pearl earring and necklace of several strands of beads (pearls?).
Alternative Title:
Venetian lady in the Sindall dress
Description:
Title from item. and Scratched-letter state of: A Venetian lady in the Sindall dress.
Publisher:
Publish'd 30 of July 1776, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London