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Manuscript/Mixed Material [Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria]

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Title

  • [Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria]

Names

  • Venice (Republic : to 1797). Doge (1570-1577 : Mocenigo)
  • Mocenigo, Alvise I, 1507-1577
  • Venier, Giovanni Antonio, active 1542-1574

Created / Published

  • 1574.

Headings

  • -  Istria (Croatia and Slovenia)--History--Sources
  • -  Istria (Croatia and Slovenia)--Politics and government--Sources
  • -  Law--Istria (Croatia and Slovenia)--Sources
  • -  Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Manuscripts, Italian--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Ms.
  • -  In Latin through mid-leaf 95a; the rest in the Venetian dialect of Italian.
  • -  Title supplied by cataloger; lost 1st leaf may have carried one.
  • -  Judging from similar Venetian documents, the lost first leaf is likely to have included the name of the doge of the period as the issuing authority; in this case, Alvise Mocenigo I.
  • -  In central medallion on upper cover of original binding: Ioanni Antonio Venerio.
  • -  Text begins (leaf 2a) with the first of altogether 244 chapter captions: De modo reddendi ius.
  • -  The text, issued to Giovanni Antonio Venier (previously Venetian ambassador to Rome) upon his assignment to Istria, combines information, directives, regulations, etc.; the Italian chapters (leaf 95a mid-page through 176a) are decisions, dated 1536-1574, of the Venetian Republic.
  • -  On 176a, formula: Jurasti honorem et proficuum [sic] Illustrissimi Dominii nostri, eundo, stando, et redeundo. In a different hand: Datti in nostro Ducali Palatio die xiij Martii ... MDLXXIIII. Signed: Aloy[sius] Zambert[us], Secret[arius]. On 179a-189b, table of contents.
  • -  Purchased by LC from H.P. Kraus; accessioned Feb. 27, 1947 (LL 5452F21).
  • -  Written in Venice, all by one professional scribe, on parchment of good quality, in large humanistic italic; decorated with cadelled red initials. Contemporary red morocco binding, covers tooled in gilt.
  • -  Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 115, V 4
  • -  Cataloged as manuscript. vj04 19jan95

Medium

  • 2-176, [24] leaves (leaves [177-178] and [190-200] blank), bound : parchment ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DR1350.I78 V45 1574

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95106207

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Venice, Alvise I Mocenigo, and Giovanni Antonio Venier. Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria. 1574. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95106207/.

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Venice, Mocenigo, A. I. & Venier, G. A. (1574) Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95106207/.

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Venice, Alvise I Mocenigo, and Giovanni Antonio Venier. Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria. 1574. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/95106207/>.