MANUSCRIT. Dogmatic commission for Giorgio... - Lot 24 - Giquello

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MANUSCRIT. Dogmatic commission for Giorgio... - Lot 24 - Giquello
MANUSCRIT. Dogmatic commission for Giorgio Emo, born in 1538, who was consul of the Republic of Venice in Alexandria from 1580 to 1584. [Venice, ca. 1580]. Manuscript in-4, of (197) ff. the last blank: red morocco, decorated with recessed compartments with gilt background decorated with painted arabesques, in the centre large box decorated with the lion of St. Mark holding a book on a gilt background, on the second plate painted coat of arms of the addressee, traces of ties, spine decorated with crossed gilt fillets, gilt edges, modern green morocco slipcase (Venetian binding of the time). Dogal commission issued around 1580 by Niccolo da Ponte, doge of Venice from 1578 to 1585, to Giorgio Emo, born in 1538, who was consul of the Venetian Republic in Alexandria from 1580 to 1584. Manuscript on vellum skin, calligraphed in ink, ruled and with large margins. Superb and rare dogal binding. These bindings were executed in Venice in the 16th century and usually cover diplomatic documents called "dogal commissions" or "Ducales"; these instructions, issued by the Doge, contained a letter of appointment and the laws and decrees governing the office then granted. Their decoration testifies to a strong influence of Islamic art, inherited from the centuries-old exchanges between Venice and the East via Constantinople. Léon Gruel, in his Manuel de l'amateur de reliures, reproduces a binding of this type whose decoration is treated in the style and manner of Persian bindings: 'The skin,' he notes, 'does not receive direct ornamentation, but it is lined with a composition that resembles paper paste, on which a kind of brown lacquer decorated with elegant arabesques finely painted in gold has been fixed. As was the practice in the East, the middle and the corners are cut out, strongly embossed, then gilded and painted in various colours" (vol. I, pp. 154-155). A very fine specimen: it is cited by Tammaro de Marinis in La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI (n° 1917 a). From the library of Grace Whitney Hoff (I, 1933, no. 96, pl. XXXVII). As is very often the case, the binding is without the seal and part of the cordon that connected it to the bottom of the spine. A bit cracked on the height of two boxes, small restorations on the spine and on a bit.
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