[Venetian AQ letter sheet].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Venice (Republic : To 1797)

Contributor:

Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Postal service--Italy--Venice.

Postal service.

Water--Law and legislation--Italy--Venice.

Water.

Water--Law and legislation.

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

Blank forms -- Italy -- Venice -- 18th century.

Forms (documents)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 21 x 29 cm

Other Title:

Text begins: De ordine dell'illustriss. Sig. Sauij, & Essecutori alle Acque iusta la deliberatione per sue signorie illustriss. presa sotto li 12 Nouembre 1608 per il dacio delli soldi 4 per lettera ...

Fingerprint:

8.si *à*a iùse l-ia (S) 1707 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [publisher not identified], [between ca. 1707 and 1709]

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger from content.

Dated at head of sheet: Condotta seconda. Principia primo Genaro 1707 finità vltimo Decembre 1709.

Signatures: pi1.

Broadside (oblong folio). Prepaid stationery issued by the Republic of Venice to generate revenue for the Collegio alle Acque. Printed on the sheet are the dates within which it is valid; the number of the sheet; the names of two officials ("Condutor D. Paulo Buratta." and "Pieggio D. Marco Brusa."), one on each side of a central woodcut of the Lion of St. Mark flanked by the letters "A" and "Qe" (for the Collegio alle Acque); and the text of the 1608 statute establishing the tax of 4 solidi per letter.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Penn Libraries copy is numbered "N 8547".

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. numeral ("9821[?]") at head outer corner of obverse of sheet; name ("... Torelli [or Tonelli?] ...") and address of recipient in ms. on reverse of sheet.

Penn Libraries copy: small hole mended in center of sheet; dampstained at head and tail of sheet.

Penn Libraries copy purchased from Samuel Gedge in 2008

OCLC:

674565547