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Leaf from the Capitolare of Giovanni Battista di Pietro Vitturi as ducal councillor for the sestiere (quarter) of Santa Croce in Venice

Manuscript Cutting
early 17th century (made)
Place of origin
Italy (made)
Venice (made)

Leaf cut from a text of the oath sworn by Giovanni Batista Vittura, ‘Consigliero de Venetia del Sestier di Santa Croce', with on the presumed verso, a full-page miniature showing the councillor as a bearded man in red cloak trimmed with ermine kneeling before St Mark and touching a book preferred by the Apostle, with the Virgin and Child looking down from above, within a strapwork frame.
Miniature attributed to Alessandro Merli (mount annotated "style of Farinati").

Object details

Categories
Manuscript Cutting
Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance
Object type
Manuscript cutting
TitleLeaf from the Capitolare of Giovanni Battista di Pietro Vitturi as ducal councillor for the sestiere (quarter) of Santa Croce in Venice
Materials and techniques
Parchment
Ink
Pigments
Gold
Illumination
Writing
Brief description
Leaf from the Capitolare of Giovanni Battista di Pietro Vitturi as ducal councillor for the sestiere (quarter) of Santa Croce in Venice, elected 1600, attributed to Alessandro Merli, Venice, early 17th century.
Physical description
Leaf cut from a text of the oath sworn by Giovanni Batista Vittura, ‘Consigliero de Venetia del Sestier di Santa Croce', with on the presumed verso, a full-page miniature showing the councillor as a bearded man in red cloak trimmed with ermine kneeling before St Mark and touching a book preferred by the Apostle, with the Virgin and Child looking down from above, within a strapwork frame.
Miniature attributed to Alessandro Merli (mount annotated "style of Farinati").
Dimensions
  • Height: 204mm
  • Width: 142mm
Production typeUnique
Object history
From the collection of William Young Ottley (1771-1836); his sale, Sotheby's London, 11-12 May 1838; collection of Samuel Rogers (1763-1855): his sale, Christie and Manson, London, 28 April 1856 and following days, lot 1003; bought in 1856 by the Art Museum for £6.16.6, together with 3126 (inv. no. 3577-1856); transferred from the Art Museum in December 1863.
Bibliographic references
  • Inventory of the objects forming the collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington, ed. by J.C. Robinson, London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1856. p. 73, no. 10201 [with former inv. no. 3578].
  • Grendler, P.F., 'Leaders of the Venetian State, 1540-1609: A prosopographical analysis', Studi Veneziani 19 (1990), pp. 35-85 (see pp. 84-85 on Vitturi).
  • Watson, Rowan. Educators, Collectors, Fragments and the "Illuminated" Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Nineteenth Century. In: Linda L. Brownrigg and Margaret M. Smith, eds. Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books. Los Altos Hills: Anderson Lovelace; London: Red Gull Press, 2000. pp. 21-46, ill. ISBN 0962637262 (hbk); 0962637270 (pbk). pp. 21-46 (45).
  • Szépe, H., Venice Illuminated: Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. pp. 113, 282, 314 n. 172, 352 n. 139., ill. 3.29.
  • Peter Kidd, 'Frederic Madden's Journal: The Rogers Sale', 14 May 2022, in Medieval Manuscripts Provenance blog [accessed 05/10/2023].
Other numbers
  • 3578-1856 - Previous number
  • MS 1214 - Cancelled number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
3127

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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