Dogale issued by Agostino Barbarigo (1420-1501), doge of Venice (r. 1486-1501); confers on Giovanni Cappello the title of procuratore di San Marco.
Script: Textualis rotunda, by one scribe.
Decoration: Opening page (fol. 7r) has two historiated initials and a full border: a 10-line initial N “Nos,” St. Mark holding book in left hand and raising right hand in blessing, as he stands in a landscape with rocks, grass, a lake, and mountains in the distance. A 5-line initial I “Iuro,” enclosing a half-figure of St. John the Baptist, in animal skin and red mantle, holding cross. Full floriate and foliate border with two putti holding possible heraldic shield of blue and oxidized silver; in the top margin a flower or urn sprouting wheat and a gray pearl in a shell.
Binding note
Venice, late 15th century. Brown calf over oak boards (7 mm thick), blind-embossed in concentric frames filled with floral and cross saltire-shaped toolings; decorated metal cornerpieces and a quatrefoil-shaped brass boss in the center of both the front and back covers.
Contents
1.1r-4v: “Incipiunt capitula Comissionis Dominorum procuratorum Ecclesie sancti Marci apostoli et evangeliste. Capitulum iuramenti Dominorum Procuratorum Sancti Marci. i ...” Explicit: “... sub pena li- brarum centum M.cccco io die xxvi mensis februarii Capta in maiori Consilio.”
2.7r-30r: “Nos augustinus barbadico dei gracia dux uenetiarum et cetera. Comittimus tibi nobili uiro domino Joanni capello procuratori ecclesie nostre sancti Marci apostoli et euangeliste patroni et uexi- liferi nostri. Quatenus officium procurarie antedicte nunc tibi commissum facere et exercere debeas iuxta tenorem infrascripti capitularis tibi nunc datum et nostra bulla plumbea pendenti ad maiorem certitu- dinem comuniti ...” Explicit: “Que licentia notetur in notatorio Cancellarie et addatur hoc decretum nostrum in capitularibus procuratorum suprascriptorum ut omnino obseruetur.”
Provenance
Garrett MS. 159 was presumably first owned by Giovanni Cappello. Intermediate provenance is unknown. William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th duke of Hamilton (1845-1895), owned the manuscript, which was no. 154 in the Beckford Library at Hamilton Palace until being auctioned by Sotheby's at a London sale beginning on 30 June 1882. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 5 May 1926 from the Anderson Galleries in New York. He recorded the acquisition with a note in ink on the inside front cover, “R.G. May 1926.” His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 375-377.
Cite as
Garrett MS. 159, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
OCLC
1099511774
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