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DOGE AGOSTINO BARBARIGO (1420-1501). Commissione for Troilo Malipiero, in Latin and Italian, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Venice, 21 February 1499
A survival of what would once have been a flamboyantly illuminated commissione, appointing Troilo Malipiero to the post of captain of Cyprus for a period of two years.
260 x 178mm. 14 leaves, complete, 31 lines, ruled space: 162 x 89 mm, titlepage within a full border with Renaissance motifs, music-playing boys, the lion of St Mark and the coat of arms of Malipiero (a large circular segment, possibly containing a miniature, excised, with consequent loss of text to verso, excision also affecting f.2, full border rubbed with some loss of pigment, marginal staining). Unbound.
Provenance: Agostino Barbarigo (1420-1501) was Doge of Venice from 1486 until his death in 1501 – Troilo Malipiero served as captain of Cyprus from 1499-1501. He is documented to have had a hard time there, reporting various Turkish piratical raids on the island (in a report from 1500, for example, he described how five Turkish fuste had seized a Venetian ship and several smaller vessels in the waters off Limassol – see F. Stefani, ed., I Diarii di Marino Sanudo, Venice, 1879-1903, III, p.776).
A survival of what would once have been a flamboyantly illuminated commissione, appointing Troilo Malipiero to the post of captain of Cyprus for a period of two years.
260 x 178mm. 14 leaves, complete, 31 lines, ruled space: 162 x 89 mm, titlepage within a full border with Renaissance motifs, music-playing boys, the lion of St Mark and the coat of arms of Malipiero (a large circular segment, possibly containing a miniature, excised, with consequent loss of text to verso, excision also affecting f.2, full border rubbed with some loss of pigment, marginal staining). Unbound.
Provenance: Agostino Barbarigo (1420-1501) was Doge of Venice from 1486 until his death in 1501 – Troilo Malipiero served as captain of Cyprus from 1499-1501. He is documented to have had a hard time there, reporting various Turkish piratical raids on the island (in a report from 1500, for example, he described how five Turkish fuste had seized a Venetian ship and several smaller vessels in the waters off Limassol – see F. Stefani, ed., I Diarii di Marino Sanudo, Venice, 1879-1903, III, p.776).
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