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Ducal Brief
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Ducal Brief

correspondent (active Venice, about 1665)
Date1665
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumInk on vellum
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.a.2.3.7
eMuseum ID723010
EmbARK ObjectID23735
TMS Source ID8632
Last Updated8/9/24
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.
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. (as one of ten ducal briefs, with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)