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DOGE GIOVANNI MOCENIGO (1409-85). Commissione for Benedetto Pesaro, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Venice, 1481
A charmingly illuminated 15th-century commissione in a contemporary binding appointing the pirate-hunter Benedetto Pesaro to the post of galley captain for an expedition to Flanders.
255 x 175mm. 42 leaves, complete, 30 lines, ruled space: 169 x 109mm (minor cropping to upper margin of f.1, a few scattered wormholes). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with two clasps and catches (scuffed, lacking 2 clasps).
Provenance: Giovanni Mocenigo (1408-1485), was Doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485 – Benedetto Pesaro (1433-1503), or de Ca’ de Pesaro (‘Benedictus de Chadepexaro’), a member of the Pesaro family of Venice, who at the time of Benedetto’s appointment lived at the Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, now Fortuny. Benedetto was a renowned mariner and admiral: he conquered Cefalonia, S. Maura and Alessio for the Republic, broke the siege of Nauplia and hunted down the notorious pirate Kemal Re'is. He died aboard his ship in Corfu in 1503. His opulent funeral monument stands at the head of the transept of the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
A charmingly illuminated 15th-century commissione in a contemporary binding appointing the pirate-hunter Benedetto Pesaro to the post of galley captain for an expedition to Flanders.
255 x 175mm. 42 leaves, complete, 30 lines, ruled space: 169 x 109mm (minor cropping to upper margin of f.1, a few scattered wormholes). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with two clasps and catches (scuffed, lacking 2 clasps).
Provenance: Giovanni Mocenigo (1408-1485), was Doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485 – Benedetto Pesaro (1433-1503), or de Ca’ de Pesaro (‘Benedictus de Chadepexaro’), a member of the Pesaro family of Venice, who at the time of Benedetto’s appointment lived at the Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, now Fortuny. Benedetto was a renowned mariner and admiral: he conquered Cefalonia, S. Maura and Alessio for the Republic, broke the siege of Nauplia and hunted down the notorious pirate Kemal Re'is. He died aboard his ship in Corfu in 1503. His opulent funeral monument stands at the head of the transept of the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
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