Shelfmark
MS 193
Title
Book of the Venetian nobility. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Venetorum nobilium liber.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venice?, Italy, 1500s?
Physical description
1 volume (93 leaves) : paper ; 30 x 23 cm.
Note
Devised title.
Note
Variant title in M.R. James: Venetorum nobilium liber. The same title, with abbreviations, is given in a seventeenth century hand on the first page of text.
Note
Place and date of production surmised from style and subject of manuscript.
Note
Folios are unnumbered.
Note
Folios in gatherings of 4, with initials provided in red ink for A4-H4. Gatherings I4-Y4, Z2 are unnumbered. Catchwords at tail of each leaf verso.
Note
Each page ruled in ink. Rubricated.
Note
Armorial devices painted in colour for almost all names included. Four on each page in left hand margin.
Note
A full list of the preliminaries provided in M.R. James's catalogue.
Note
M.R. James suggests this manuscript came from Henry Wotton (1568-1639, Provost of Eton).
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College of front pastedown.
Note
Previous shelfmarks: B0.4.2, Bp.1.10, Bl.5.18.
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 190.
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 1920/122
Binding
Late 17th or early 18th century mid brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border with blind tooled swag roll frame and diamond fleurons at each corner; gold tooled leaf roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and title; five raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Nobility Venice Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry Venice Early works to 1800.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice
Language code
ita
Identifier
B46634