.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Details
DOGE GIOVANNI MOCENIGO (1409-85). Commissione for Pietro Contarini and Andrea de Ca’ de Pesaro, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Venice, 1484
A fascinating illuminated 15th-century commissione in a contemporary binding dispatching, with a certain degree of urgency, the noblemen Pietro Contarini and Andrea Pesaro to the Venetian overseas territories (Stato da Mar) – including Candia (Crete) and Cyprus – to seek out and correct reported irregularities.
251 x 173mm. i + 4 + i leaves, complete, 29 lines, ruled space: 166 x 110mm, historiated initial ‘N’ within three-sided border with the Lion of St Mark and the coat of arms of the Contarini and Pesaro families, quartered (some marginal staining). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (a little scuffed, lacking fabric ties).
Provenance: Giovanni Mocenigo (1409-1485), was Doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485 – Pietro Contarini (1452-1528) was a member of one of the twelve founding families of the Venetian Republic, a politician, a humanist and a poet. He seems to have often been cast in similar political roles to the one to which he is appointed in the present document, as a righter of wrongs in the Venetian Republic. Andrea Pesaro, or de Ca’ de Pesaro (‘Andreas de Chadepexaro’) was a member of the Pesaro family of Venice, who at the time of Andrea’s appointment lived at the Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, now Fortuny.
A fascinating illuminated 15th-century commissione in a contemporary binding dispatching, with a certain degree of urgency, the noblemen Pietro Contarini and Andrea Pesaro to the Venetian overseas territories (Stato da Mar) – including Candia (Crete) and Cyprus – to seek out and correct reported irregularities.
251 x 173mm. i + 4 + i leaves, complete, 29 lines, ruled space: 166 x 110mm, historiated initial ‘N’ within three-sided border with the Lion of St Mark and the coat of arms of the Contarini and Pesaro families, quartered (some marginal staining). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (a little scuffed, lacking fabric ties).
Provenance: Giovanni Mocenigo (1409-1485), was Doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485 – Pietro Contarini (1452-1528) was a member of one of the twelve founding families of the Venetian Republic, a politician, a humanist and a poet. He seems to have often been cast in similar political roles to the one to which he is appointed in the present document, as a righter of wrongs in the Venetian Republic. Andrea Pesaro, or de Ca’ de Pesaro (‘Andreas de Chadepexaro’) was a member of the Pesaro family of Venice, who at the time of Andrea’s appointment lived at the Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, now Fortuny.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Robert Tyrwhitt