DOGE ANDREA GRITTI (1455-1538). Commissione for Marco Memmo, appointing him Podestà and Captain of Justinopoli (Capodistria), in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Venice, 1537 An illuminated commissione in a binding by the Mendoza Binder appointing the Venetian nobleman Marco Memmo to the captaincy of the strategically important city of Capodistria, which would remain under Venetian control until 1797. 223 x 151mm. i (paper) + 49 leaves, complete, 23 lines, ruled space: 153 x 95mm, title-page with full illuminated border with inhabited roundels and coat of arms of Marco Memmo (some marginal staining, small losses of pigment to figures on f.1, a few scattered wormholes). Venetian binding by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo), 1537: contemporary red morocco tooled in gold ‘MARCI MEMO / M.D.XXXVII’ (edges scuffed and rubbed, losses to spine, fragments of spine loose in tissue paper). Provenance : Andrea Gritti (1455-1538) was Doge of Venice from 1523-1538 – Marco Memmo, perhaps the same who was recorded as serving as Venetian ambassador in 1521 when the peace treaty with Suleiman the Magnificent was renewed. The identity of the principal binder for Hurtado de Mendoza has been posited as Andrea de Lorenzo, bookbinder of the parish of San Fantin in Venice (see Hobson, Renaissance , p.119). Considered 'the finest and most inventive Venetian binder of the mid-sixteenth century, a craftsman of great prestige whose ornaments and designs were imitated in France and Germany', de Lorenzo bound not only for Mendoza, but also for J.J. Fugger, Granvelle, et al.
DOGE ANDREA GRITTI (1455-1538). Commissione for Marco Memmo, appointing him Podestà and Captain of Justinopoli (Capodistria), in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Venice, 1537 An illuminated commissione in a binding by the Mendoza Binder appointing the Venetian nobleman Marco Memmo to the captaincy of the strategically important city of Capodistria, which would remain under Venetian control until 1797. 223 x 151mm. i (paper) + 49 leaves, complete, 23 lines, ruled space: 153 x 95mm, title-page with full illuminated border with inhabited roundels and coat of arms of Marco Memmo (some marginal staining, small losses of pigment to figures on f.1, a few scattered wormholes). Venetian binding by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo), 1537: contemporary red morocco tooled in gold ‘MARCI MEMO / M.D.XXXVII’ (edges scuffed and rubbed, losses to spine, fragments of spine loose in tissue paper). Provenance : Andrea Gritti (1455-1538) was Doge of Venice from 1523-1538 – Marco Memmo, perhaps the same who was recorded as serving as Venetian ambassador in 1521 when the peace treaty with Suleiman the Magnificent was renewed. The identity of the principal binder for Hurtado de Mendoza has been posited as Andrea de Lorenzo, bookbinder of the parish of San Fantin in Venice (see Hobson, Renaissance , p.119). Considered 'the finest and most inventive Venetian binder of the mid-sixteenth century, a craftsman of great prestige whose ornaments and designs were imitated in France and Germany', de Lorenzo bound not only for Mendoza, but also for J.J. Fugger, Granvelle, et al.
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