Object details
Object number
2.b.2.3
Creator(s)
Italian, Venice
Title
Chronicle of Venice [Cronica di Venezia]
Date
about 1500
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
Italian (Venetian dialect)
Publication Place
Venice
Binding Description
Red velvet
Description
1 vol., (164 leaves, 29 lines) : paper ; ill. ; 30 cm.
Dimensions
30 x 21 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed (inside front cover): "C.E. Norton"
Provenance
Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 48-49.
Seymour De Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York,1935), p. 934, no. 29.
Helena Szépe. "Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian manuscripts" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 235.
Nathaniel Silver. "'Cum signo t quod potentiam vocant' The Art and Architecture of the Antonite Hospitallers in Trecento Venice." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz LVIII (2016), pp. 39, 52, notes 67, 154.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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