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Commission of Doge Andrea Gritti to Antonio Zorzi as Podestà of Oderzo

author Andrea, Doge of Venice, Gritti (Bardolino, 1455 - 1538)

Date1536

Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe

MediumInk on vellum

Dimensions24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number2.b.2.6

eMuseum ID727456

EmbARK ObjectID12533

TMS Source ID1628

Last Updated8/9/24

Description1 vol., (68 leaves, 25 lines) ; 24 cm. (folio)

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella 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.

BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 34-35.
Seymour De Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1 (New York,1935), p. 933, no. 16.
Helena Szépe. "Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian manuscripts" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 235.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, no. 42821, accessed 4 November 2016.

MarksNotesInscribed (front cover): "ANTONII GEORGIO"
Inscribed (back cover): "M.D.XXXVI"

ProvenanceNotesCollection 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)