[Instructions to Nicolaus Theupulo].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gritti, Andrea, 1455-1538.

Contributor:

Theupulo, Nicolaus, addressee.

Lesnick, Howard, 1931- former owner.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Brescia (Italy)--Politics and government.

Brescia (Italy).

Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508.

Venice (Italy).

Venice (Italy)--Politics and government--1508-1797.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

notarial documents

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Dr. Howard Lesnick (Philadelphia), 1961.

Physical Description:

31 leaves : parchment ; 228 x 160 (160 x 100) mm bound to 236 x 171 mm

Production:

[Venice, Italy], 1525.

Other Title:

Commission by the Doge of Venice - 1525

Language Note:

Latin, with occasional paragraphs in Italian.

Biography/History:

Doge of Venice from 1523 until 1538, who was instrumental in maintaining the Venetian possession of territories on the Italian mainland. He also signed a treaty with Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, which ended Venice's participation in the Italian Wars, and dealt with the military advances of Suleiman I, the Ottoman emperor, in Hungary.

Summary:

Instructions to Nicolaus Theupulo on his appointment by the Doge of Venice to govern Brescia for one year. At this time, Brescia had been under Venetian control for a century, but had experienced recent hostilities with the French; as such, the instructions mention events and governmental decisions from the 15th and early 16th centuries, as well as setting out specific guidelines for Theupulo's tenure in Brescia. Instructions are followed by a table of contents, listing the 76 parts of the instructions (each paragraph is numbered in the text). Notarized by Petrus Grafoldarius.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 31 + iii (modern paper); 1⁶(-6) 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰ 4⁶; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 25 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script, with inscriptional (square) capitals.

Decoration: Decorated initials "S.H.D.E." (f. 1r); inscriptional capitals in red and blue throughout; illuminated border (f. 2r) has a gray background with vines and flowers in gold, green, pink, red, yellow, blue, light gray, and orange, as well as three pastoral scenes, depicting the lion of St. Mark (the symbol of Venice), a coat-of-arms depicting the corno ducale (the ducal hat of the doges of Venice), trees, mountains, and bodies of water; authorial heading in gold against a gold background, illustrated to look like a stone inscription.

Binding: Modern half calf.

Origin: Written in Venice, Italy (f. 2r), in 1525 (f. 29v).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 37 (Ms. Latin 160).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1134.

OCLC:

191730505

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