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- Creator:
- Venice (Republic : To 1797), enacting jurisdiction.
- Published / Created:
- 1569.
- Call Number:
- MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. , Numbering: [1] blank leaf, [1], [1]-160, [1] pages, [16] blank leaves, [24] pages. , Manuscript on vellum. , Binding: volume bound in white vellum over boards. , Contains an index at the end., Illuminated page begins on [1], 3rd group of paging, opposite of page 2. , Text on the first page within decorated border and initials in gold and colors, with the emblems of Venice and Soranzos' coat of arms, unfinished. Capitals and titles in text in red, all edges in gilt., Illuminated first page begins: "MDLXIX. Ivro ego Ioanes Svperantivs Eqves Consiliarivs Venetiarum Sexterij Sancti Pauli ad avangelia sancta Dei, quod donec ero Consiliarius,...", This decorated manuscript, known as a Giuramento, contains the oath of the government-appointed counselor of the sestiere (district) of San Polo in Venice. In 1569, the Venetian patrician Giovanni Soranzo held this position, and he commissioned this illuminated legal document, the first page of which includes his name in large golden letters; his patron saint, John the Baptist, in the upper left corner; and his coat of arms in the lower margin. A Giuramento was issued to all six counselors of Venice and included a description of the doge's responsibilities. Counselors were members of the Collegio, the government’s highest executive committee. Two years before his appointment as counselor, Soranzo had served as the Venetian governor of Bergamo, in northern Italy., Volume inscribed by Giovanni Soranzo on the page (page [1], 2nd group of paging) preceding the illuminated page about his reelection as counselor in April of 1574. It appears that this manuscript was his personal copy, which bears his name in the illuminated page with the date 1569. , Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b451624, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2019. MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289, Description based on print version record. , and Written in humanistic cursive in Latin and Italian.
- Publisher:
- producer not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Venice, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Loyalty oaths, Law, City councils, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Italian
- Found in:
- Lillian Goldman Law Library > Constitutio pro Consiliariis Reipublicas Venetiarum : manuscript
