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Rules and Statutes of the Confraternity of the Church of SANTA MARIA DE ZERO in Treviso, 25 March 1562. [Treviso: 1563].
268 x 199 mm. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Single quire of 14 leaves, including 3ff with later additions and 4 blank ff, written in brown ink in a fine bookhand, fine illuminated frontispiece miniature of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, rising from a golden chalice, assisted by two angels, within an oval baroque border, surround of golden putti carrying instruments of the Passion, a ladder, a pillar and dice, at foot a cartouche with the names of the four elected 'Massari'. FINE CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING, gold-tooled red morocco over beech boards, sides with multiple fillets, lacework tool repeated to form a border, surrounding a field filled with gouges, dots and leafy tendrils (lacking clasps).
Produced for the confraternity of brothers and sisters of the Church of Santa Maria presumably on the occasion of its foundation. According to the statutes four 'massari', i.e. overseers or stewarts, were to be elected to manage the financial affairs of the confraternity and the names of the first four elected in April 1563 appear on the cartouche of the miniature. Later additions to the manuscript are dated 1565, 1587, 1748 and 1778.
268 x 199 mm. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Single quire of 14 leaves, including 3ff with later additions and 4 blank ff, written in brown ink in a fine bookhand, fine illuminated frontispiece miniature of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, rising from a golden chalice, assisted by two angels, within an oval baroque border, surround of golden putti carrying instruments of the Passion, a ladder, a pillar and dice, at foot a cartouche with the names of the four elected 'Massari'. FINE CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING, gold-tooled red morocco over beech boards, sides with multiple fillets, lacework tool repeated to form a border, surrounding a field filled with gouges, dots and leafy tendrils (lacking clasps).
Produced for the confraternity of brothers and sisters of the Church of Santa Maria presumably on the occasion of its foundation. According to the statutes four 'massari', i.e. overseers or stewarts, were to be elected to manage the financial affairs of the confraternity and the names of the first four elected in April 1563 appear on the cartouche of the miniature. Later additions to the manuscript are dated 1565, 1587, 1748 and 1778.