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Reliure, Commissione pour Sebastiano Malipiero, podestà de Sacile, manuscrit sur vélin, Venise autour de 1585. Extraordinaire exemplaire d'une reliure sunk-compartment vénitienne; de telles reliures de style persan se retrouvent dans des documents publiés au nom du doge de Venise autour de 1570 jusqu'à 1600. Même si BINDING -- COMMISSIONE for SEBASTIANO MALIPIERO, podestà of Sacile, in Italian. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.
[Venice, ca. 1585]
230 x 160mm. 144 leaves (including 8 final blanks); 1-1310 1410 (14/3 + χ4); vertical catchwords in extreme inner margin on last versos; single columns of 23 lines, ruled in pale brown ink, justification 160 x 105mm; written in brown ink in humanistic cursive script; calligraphic initials in the same ink as the text. Original brown morocco over pasteboard with gilt-lacquered sunk-panel ornamentation, each cover with an outer border formed of eight sunk-panels, the central rectangle of each cover with centre- and cornerpiece sunk-panels, the central panels with additional smaller pendant panels above and below, in the central panel of the upper cover the lion of St Mark, in the centre of the lower cover the arms of Sebastiano Malipiero with the initials 'S.M.', the other panels with embossed floral and arabesque ornament coloured red, blue and green, the spine in seven panels each gilt with a geometric arrangement of straight lines, edges gilt and gauffered, remains of four pairs of red and yellow silk ties (a few small wormholes, upper joint cracked, extremities slightly worn), modern black morocco box.
PROVENANCE:
1. Sebastiano Malipiero, binding and text (f.1v): 'A te nobil homo Sebastian Malipiero ... podestà et capitanio de Sacil'
2. Amadeo Svajer: engraved armorial bookplate
A FINE FRESH EXAMPLE OF A VENETIAN SUNK-COMPARTMENT BINDING. Persian-style bindings like the present one are found on Venetian commissioni and dogali from ca. 1570 until after 1600. Though Oriental in inspiration, they were no doubt produced by Italian craftsmen. 'The covers of sunk-compartment bindings are made up of two layers of board. The upper board is cut out in the pattern of the compartments, and glued onto the lower board. After the leather is stretched over, the boards are stamped with metal blocks in the shape of the cutouts, the blocks being engraved with (usually) floral patterns, brought out in relief by the stamping process. The sunk ground of the compartments is impressed with gold lacquer, and the floral patterns are picked out with added pigments.' (P. Needham, Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, New York 1979, p. 237). Since the technique is specialized and the blocks could be used only for this purpose, sunk-panel bindings were probably produced in only a few shops. Although bindings in the style are generally similar, there are small variations in the shape and ornamentation of the panels that would support classification of the bindings and identification of the individual blocks. The present binding closely resembles one of 1570 in the Pierpont Morgan Library, including the treatment of the spine (Needham, op.cit., no. 75), and one of 1587 reproduced in T. de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, Florence 1960, II, no. 1917G, pl. CCCLIV bis; these were, however, produced from different blocks.
Commissioni and dogali were issued in the name of the doge of Venice to officials appointed by the state. The manuscripts typically contain copies of the letter of appointment and the laws and decrees pertaining to the position in question. Although the manuscripts were copied in standard form in the Venetian chancery, they were bound by their recipients, so that these documents provide a splendid series of closely dated examples illustrating the history of Venetian bookbinding from the late 15th to the mid-17th century.
Sebastiano Malipiero, member of an old Venetian family that had produced two doges, was appointed governor of Sacile, a small city in the Friuli, probably in the 1580s. Although the precise date does not appear in this commissione, the latest document cited in it is dated 1581.
[Venice, ca. 1585]
230 x 160mm. 144 leaves (including 8 final blanks); 1-1310 1410 (14/3 + χ4); vertical catchwords in extreme inner margin on last versos; single columns of 23 lines, ruled in pale brown ink, justification 160 x 105mm; written in brown ink in humanistic cursive script; calligraphic initials in the same ink as the text. Original brown morocco over pasteboard with gilt-lacquered sunk-panel ornamentation, each cover with an outer border formed of eight sunk-panels, the central rectangle of each cover with centre- and cornerpiece sunk-panels, the central panels with additional smaller pendant panels above and below, in the central panel of the upper cover the lion of St Mark, in the centre of the lower cover the arms of Sebastiano Malipiero with the initials 'S.M.', the other panels with embossed floral and arabesque ornament coloured red, blue and green, the spine in seven panels each gilt with a geometric arrangement of straight lines, edges gilt and gauffered, remains of four pairs of red and yellow silk ties (a few small wormholes, upper joint cracked, extremities slightly worn), modern black morocco box.
PROVENANCE:
1. Sebastiano Malipiero, binding and text (f.1v): 'A te nobil homo Sebastian Malipiero ... podestà et capitanio de Sacil'
2. Amadeo Svajer: engraved armorial bookplate
A FINE FRESH EXAMPLE OF A VENETIAN SUNK-COMPARTMENT BINDING. Persian-style bindings like the present one are found on Venetian commissioni and dogali from ca. 1570 until after 1600. Though Oriental in inspiration, they were no doubt produced by Italian craftsmen. 'The covers of sunk-compartment bindings are made up of two layers of board. The upper board is cut out in the pattern of the compartments, and glued onto the lower board. After the leather is stretched over, the boards are stamped with metal blocks in the shape of the cutouts, the blocks being engraved with (usually) floral patterns, brought out in relief by the stamping process. The sunk ground of the compartments is impressed with gold lacquer, and the floral patterns are picked out with added pigments.' (P. Needham, Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, New York 1979, p. 237). Since the technique is specialized and the blocks could be used only for this purpose, sunk-panel bindings were probably produced in only a few shops. Although bindings in the style are generally similar, there are small variations in the shape and ornamentation of the panels that would support classification of the bindings and identification of the individual blocks. The present binding closely resembles one of 1570 in the Pierpont Morgan Library, including the treatment of the spine (Needham, op.cit., no. 75), and one of 1587 reproduced in T. de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, Florence 1960, II, no. 1917G, pl. CCCLIV bis; these were, however, produced from different blocks.
Commissioni and dogali were issued in the name of the doge of Venice to officials appointed by the state. The manuscripts typically contain copies of the letter of appointment and the laws and decrees pertaining to the position in question. Although the manuscripts were copied in standard form in the Venetian chancery, they were bound by their recipients, so that these documents provide a splendid series of closely dated examples illustrating the history of Venetian bookbinding from the late 15th to the mid-17th century.
Sebastiano Malipiero, member of an old Venetian family that had produced two doges, was appointed governor of Sacile, a small city in the Friuli, probably in the 1580s. Although the precise date does not appear in this commissione, the latest document cited in it is dated 1581.