Object details
Accession number
2.a.2.3.8
Primary Creator
Agostino Bianchi
(active Venice, about 1665 - about 1705)
Full title
Ducal Brief
Creation Date
1705
Object Case
Dante Case
Language
Italian
Publication Place
Venice
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. (as one of ten ducal briefs, with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)
Display Media
Ink on vellum
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
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