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Leaf from a Doge’s Commission
Artist: Master To. Ve.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 216 x 153mm
CONTENT: Commission from Doge Pietro Lando (r. 1539-1545) appointing Antonio (?) Bollani Podestà of the terrae humagi (Umag, Croatia) for one year.
DECORATION: Miniature of St Anthony Abbot with crutch and bell praying to a vision of Virgin and Child against a mountainous landscape, below it a cartouche with a female figure (Peace?) in liquid gold on a red ground, surrounded by a full historiated border with urns and floral motifs in gold on a ground of solid colour and gold-framed compartments, with the Lion of St Mark in upper margin, St Peter in the outer margin, and a shield of arms hung by a ribbon against a mountainous backdrop in the lower margin and flanked by inscription: ANNO AETATIS LIIII (the numbers are very faded and their reading is uncertain).
ORNAMENTATION: Traces of an initial [2 ll.] in gold on square red ground on the verso.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1539
CE
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Circa
1545
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 44
Primary reference Number: 176605
Project ID: 1388
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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