Object details
Object number
2.c.2.7
Creator(s)
Italian, Venice
Title
Practice of the Courts of the Venetian Palace [Prattica delle Corti del palazzo de Venetia]
Date
17th century
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
Italian (Venetian dialect)
Publication Place
Venice
Binding Description
Original vellum binding
Description
1 vol. (160 + 4 leaves, 19 lines) ; paper ; 15 cm.
Dimensions
15 x 10 cm (5 7/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Affixed: bookplate of Earl of Guilford
Inscribed (second fly leaf): "E. C. London Aug. 1883"
Inscribed (second fly leaf): "E.C. = Edward Cheney, then John Ruskin's. Now, 1900, C.E. Norton's" [hand of Charles Eliot Norton]
Inscribed (second fly leaf): "Mine, now, 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner." [hand of Isabella Stewart Gardner]
Provenance
Collection of a Venetian library, 18th century, no. 29.
Collection of the Earl of Guilford.
Collection of the English art collector and watercolor painter Edward Cheney (1803-1884), 1883.
Collection of the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), London.
Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1900.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 51-52.
Seymour De Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. 1 (New York, 1935), p. 935, no. 33.
Helena Szépe. "Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian manuscripts" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 235.
Anne-Marie Eze. "'Safe from Destruction by Fire': Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian Manuscripts." Journal for Manuscript Studies (Fall 2017), pp. 205, 214-15, fig. 10.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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