Dogale

Accession number: 
MS M.556
Title: 
Dogale
Created: 
Venice, Italy, 1717.
Binding: 
19th- or 20th-century red silk.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description: 
121 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ;c230 x 160 mm
Provenance: 
Issued to Zuanne Donado on May 2, 1717; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ferdinando Ongania in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. dogale; written and illuminated in Venice, Italy, in the ducal palace and dated May 2, 1717 on fol. 115.
Decoration: 1 full-page heraldic frontispiece comprising 2 winged putti presenting a coat of arms (fol. 1); full border in gold with red berries (fol. 2).

Script: 
cursive script
Language: 
Italian
Century: 
Classification: