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Detailed record for Additional 20916, f. 18
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| Title |
Leaf of a Doge's Commission from ?Sebastiano Venier to Marco Antonio Venier as provveditore of Liesena (Hvar) |
| Origin |
Italy, N. E. (Venice) |
| Date |
c. 1577 - c. 1578 |
| Language |
Italian |
| Script |
Humanistic |
| Decoration |
1 full-page miniature in colours and gold, of a Venetian nobleman being presented by Mark and Jerome to a vision of the Crucifixion within an ornate frame with an erased coat of arms. |
| Dimensions in mm |
215 x 145 |
| Official foliation |
Parchment leaf in a double-sided window mount, foliated as '18'. |
| Form |
Parchment leaf in a double-sided window mount, kept in a box with other leaves. |
| Binding |
N/A |
| Provenance |
Marco Antonio Venier, a Venetian nobleman and provveditore of Liesena (Hvar) during the dogate of ?Sebastiano Venier (1577-1578); inscribed 'Nos Sebastianus /...Dei gratia/ Dux Vene / tiarum et[cetera] / Commettemo / a te nobel homo Marco Anto / nio Venier, dilecto cittidin / et fidel nostro che in nome de Jseu Christo e / n[o]stro mandato vadi et andar debbi de nostro ma[n] / datocome Proveditor di Liesena, over di terra /...gli cittadini, et habitatori dell ..../...ino distretto reger et governar de.../...et buon stato della signoria nostra.../...raggion e justitia...et criminal /...per noi fare a detta commun/ ita et esser et far debbi....reggimenti / per...' (partially erased; f. 18v).
Charles Stuart, baron Stuart de Rothesay (b. 1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/4 (f. 18v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. |
| Notes |
Italian cutting.
The present leaf is one of 33 leaves and cuttings purchased by the British Museum at the de Rothesay sale in 1855.
It is boxed with Add. 20916, ff. 19-25.
To see this leaf in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 20916, ff. 18-25. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1875), p. 289.
D. S. Chambers, 'Merit and Money: The Procurators of St Mark and their Commissioni, 1443-1605', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 60 (1997), 23-88 (p. 25 n. 8). |
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