• Cronica Venetiarum / Benintendi Ravignani

Extent:
  • 1 volume (iii, 19, ii leaves) : parchment, illustrations ; 27 cm
Date:
  • 1350-1400
Language:
Author:
  • Ravignani, Benintendi, approximately 1317-approximately 1360
Description:
  • Script: Textualis rotunda.
  • Decoration: Text opens on fol. 1r with a 5-line gold initial I enclosing the bust of a saint (Mark?), with nimbus, dressed in red cloak over a green robe, right hand raised in blessing and in left holding green book with black straps; three-quarter foliate border with light and dark blue, rose, pink, green, and orange-red, encircling an erased heraldic shield in the upper margin.
Binding note:
  • Italy (Venice), late 15th century. Brown calf over beveled wooden boards (4-5 mm thick).
Provenance:
  • Garrett MS. 156 was produced in Venice in the second half of the 14th century. The erased heraldic shield on fol. 1r was described by de Ricci in 1935 as possibly being for the Baldovino family of Venice (de gules aigle d'or). Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 12 November 1924 from the New York bookseller Ernest Dressel North. Garrett noted the Arnold sale and lot number in pencil on fol. ii recto. Garrett's bookplate is on the inside front cover. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 156
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 365-366.
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