"Eletione in Abbadessa dem Monas(teri)o delle Verg(i)ni di Vene(zi)a dell’ Ordine di S. Agostino, Congregatione di S. Marco di Mantoua dell’ illustriss(i)ma & reuerend(issi)ma Madre Suor Maria Gioconda Conta(ri)ni" [and] "Gratulatio coram...
Estimation :
6000 / 7000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
serenissimo principe Aloysio Contareno atque excellentissimo collegio in solemni inauguratione Mariae Iucundae Contarenae Sacri Asceterij Sanctae Mariae de Virginibus antistitae habita ab Helena Delphina". 1683Venice,Italian and Latin manuscript on 4to-size paper, c. 25,5 x 18,5 cm, richly goldtooled cont. vellum (somewhat loosening, a few tiny defects), covers with double rectangular pattern of gilt ornamental borders with interior corner pieces and oval central painted Contarini coat-of-arms within gilt oval border, gilt flat spine, a.e.g. with small tooled gauffering (a few unobtrusive sm. dampstains), [47 (+ 9 blank)] ruled ff. Very well preserved.
Elegant italic handwriting in brown ink, titles and names rubricated, title-pages (ff. 1 & 32) with coloured decoration within gilt ruled borders, initials gilt with a few historiated calligraphic initials heightened in red or gold. Italian and Latin texts on the election in 1683 of Maria Gioconda Contarini as new abbess of the Venetian convent of Santa Maria delle Vergini. Important text for the monastic history of Venice and its leading patrician dynasties. The 2nd text is a very rare speech held by Helena Dolfin in the presence of Alvise Contarini (1601-1684), 106th Doge of Venice (1676-1684). At the end follows a short added chronicle of events under abbess Contarini in the period 1682-1693. Armorial bookpl. M. Lugol. Collector’s tickets of Comte Henry Chandon de Briailles 1898-1937. Catalogue cutting pasted on front flyleaf describing a very similar manuscript. A more detailed description is available.
Elegant italic handwriting in brown ink, titles and names rubricated, title-pages (ff. 1 & 32) with coloured decoration within gilt ruled borders, initials gilt with a few historiated calligraphic initials heightened in red or gold. Italian and Latin texts on the election in 1683 of Maria Gioconda Contarini as new abbess of the Venetian convent of Santa Maria delle Vergini. Important text for the monastic history of Venice and its leading patrician dynasties. The 2nd text is a very rare speech held by Helena Dolfin in the presence of Alvise Contarini (1601-1684), 106th Doge of Venice (1676-1684). At the end follows a short added chronicle of events under abbess Contarini in the period 1682-1693. Armorial bookpl. M. Lugol. Collector’s tickets of Comte Henry Chandon de Briailles 1898-1937. Catalogue cutting pasted on front flyleaf describing a very similar manuscript. A more detailed description is available.
