Object details

Object number

2.a.2.3.1

Creator(s)

Cristoforo Moro (Venice, 1390 - 1471, Venice)

Title

Letter to Antonius de Priolis from the Doge's Palace, Venice

Date

25 October 1470

Medium

Ink on vellum

Language

Italian

Publication Place

Venice

Dimensions

28 cm (11 in.)

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Annotation in pencil in Charles Eliot Norton's hand (top of p. 1): Il Lorenzi [illegible] Palazzo Ducale. Doc. 843 / 798 concerning the loss of papers of State

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

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. 936, no. 38.

Gallery

Long Gallery

Case

Dante Case

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