Capitolare of counsellor Marcantonio Loredan
author
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Date1607
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumInk on vellum
Dimensions24 x 17 cm (9 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.c.2.3
eMuseum ID718629
EmbARK ObjectID20836
Previous Number16F27e42-s
TMS Source ID7390
Last Updated8/14/24
Description1 vol., (48 leaves, 19 lines) : vellum ; ill. ; 24 cm.Status
Not on viewWeb 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. 39-40.
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. 20.
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.
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. 20.
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.
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (flyleaf): "Doge Leonardo Donato 1606-1612. 'These Capitolari of the Counsellors of the Doge are of great rarity, which is to be accounted for probably by their being returned to the Ducal Chancery by the Counsellor at the close of his term of service." [hand of Charles Eliot Norton; transcribed excerpt from Edward Cheney. Remarks on the Illuminated Official Manuscripts of the Venetian Republic (London, 1867), p. 50]
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)
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)
Nicolò da Ponte
26 August 1578
