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Dogale, issued to Ermolao Morosini, 1543, manuscript on vellum, Venetian dark green morocco gilt by the Mendoza Binder

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[DOGALE]. Ducal Commission, on vellum, issued on behalf of Pietro L꧂ando (Doge of Ven🎉ice 1539-1545) to Ermolao Morosini.


A FINE DOCUMENT COMMEMORAT🤡IN💮G THE COMMISSION OF ERMOLAO MOROSINI.


The Morosini family first rose to power after the tenth century after they foiled the plans of the rival Caloprino family who had intended to surrender Venice𒆙 to the Emperor Otto II of the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of history, the family produced four doges, several high-ranking generals and admirals, in addition to multiple cardinals and other high ranking✃ members of the Roman curia. Recipients of appointments by the Doge, like Ermolao, often commissioned the help of a professional scribe to create a copy of the record which could then be illuminated and bound. These records served as material witnesses to the recipient’s outstanding service to the Venetian Republic, while also embodying wealth and prestige of the office.


The binding was made for Ermolao Morosini (fl. 1540s), Podestà of Brescia in 1540 (based on earlier commissions in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, see Szèpe, "Civic and Artistic Identity in Illuminated Venetian Documents", Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, v. 95, 2001, pp. 66-67), elected Bailo of Constantinople on 4 March 1543 (this commission) and entered his office (and presumably Constaꦆntinople) on 8 August and stayed until July 1545.


The pattern of this binding and the tools employed allow its attribution to a shop designated by Ilse Schunke "Der Wanderbuchbinder" and by Anthony Hobson "The Mendoza Binder", in recognition of its work for Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Hobson expanded Schunke's census (in "Venezianische Renaissanceeinbände", pp. 168-169) of the shop's production from eleven dogali to some 62 dogali, commissioned in the years 1530 to about 1555.

4to (237 x 165mm), written in a fine and clear humanist hand, initials and chapter headings rubricated, 25 lines, 49 (of 50 leaves, lacking f.1), most numbered, in Latin through folio 41, Italian thereafter; initialled by Grand Chancellor Andrea Franc✤esci and signed by Ducal Scribe Hieronymus Muriomus in Nostro Ducali Palatio, Die xi Julii MDXXXiii.


binding: Venetian dark green morocco (247 x 174 mm) by the Mendoza binder, 15🎉43, 3 blind fillets around sides, inner rectangular gilt frame flanked by gilt and 3 blind fillets and containing repeated gilt arabesque, gilt fleuron at outer and inner corners, at centre 2 interlaced squares forming 8-pointed figure, star at inside and outside angles, fleuron finial above and below, in centre a gilt roundel consisting of saw-toothed circle, 2 gilt circles enclosing dots, inside which, on upper cover, "HER/MOLAI/ MAVRO/CENI" and on lower cover ".M.D./ XXXXIII" and an acanthus leaf below, 4 pairs of silk ties, alternating yellow and blue, spine with 3 raised bands, braided cord running from lower band to tail of spine to originally hold ducal bolla, gilt edges, in a black cloth box. (Minor wear to spine, some ties lacking.)


provenance: Binding for Ermolao Morosini (fl. 1540s), Podestà of Brescia in 1540—Famiglia Morosini del Pestrino, bookplate—Tammaro De Marinis (1878- 1969). acquisition: Purchased in 1986 from𒉰 Martin Breslauer Inc., Ne♉w York.

references: Helena Szèpe, "Civic and Artistic Identity in Illuminated Venetian Documents", Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, v. 95, 2001, pp. 66-67; Anthony Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), p. 244 (Appendix 5: Bindings by the Mendoza Binder, no. 20); Giovan Battista di Crollalanza, Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili o notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti, Bologna, A. Forni, vol. 2, 1965; Tammaro De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI (Florence 1960), no. 1847; Giuseppe Bettinelli, Dizionario storico portatile di tutte le venete patrizie famiglie, Venezia, 1758, p. 111

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