Object details
Object number
2.c.2.3
Creator(s)
Italian, Venice
Title
Capitolare of counsellor Marcantonio Loredan
Date
1607
Medium
Ink on vellum
Language
Italian (Venetian dialect)
Publication Place
Venice
Binding Description
Original crimson velvet binding (17th century)
Description
1 vol., (48 leaves, 19 lines) : vellum ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Dimensions
24 x 17 cm (9 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (flyleaf): "Doge Leonardo Donato 1606-1612. 'These Capitolari of the Counsellors of the Doge are of great rarity, which is to be accounted for probably by their being returned to the Ducal Chancery by the Counsellor at the close of his term of service." [hand of Charles Eliot Norton; transcribed excerpt from Edward Cheney. Remarks on the Illuminated Official Manuscripts of the Venetian Republic (London, 1867), p. 50]
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. 39-40.
Seymour De Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. 1 (New York, 1935), p. 933, no. 20.
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.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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