Instrumenta feudorum castri Sone : cum privilegio comitatus in persona[m] Don Ioannis et fratrum ac descendentium de Faelis

Contributor:

Ruffo, Francesco di Andrea (scribe); Medico, Alessandro di Nicolo (scribe)

Name:

Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, 1463-1525; Bembo, Bernardo, 1433-1519; Trevisan, Angelo, -1507 or 1508; Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519

Date:

1504

Description:

Notarial copies of decrees and grants relating to Giovanni Faella of Verona and his family, mostly written by imperial notary Francesco di Andrea Ruffo in 1504, with a long addition by imperial notary Alessandro di Nicolo Medico dated 1530.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Internationaal Antiquariaat (Amsterdam), 22 March 1961, lot 915.; Formerly owned by B. S. Cron, Kew, 1 July 1965 (inscription inside upper cover).; Appears in Alan Thomas' cat. 18 (1967), no. 4.; Formerly owned by J. R. Abbey, ms. no. JA 7387, 17 June 1967 (London; bookplate inside upper cover; inscription inside lower cover).; Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 20 June 1978, lot 2992.; Appears in H. P. Kraus' cat. 159 (1981), no. 9; handled subsequently by Martin Breslauer.; Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 Apr. 1996, lot 8.; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.; Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Cron, B. S., former owner.; Abbey, J. R. 1896-1969, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333030; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs48.html; Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/79

Subject:

Faella, Giovanni; Buildings -- Italy -- Verona; Buildings

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Deeds; Illuminations; Notarial documents; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

26 leaves : parchment; 305 x 187 (224 x 113) mm bound to 310 x 185 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Verona

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 3r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-2r: [Later additions of epitaph for wife of Cyrillo Faella and 3 decrees dated 1486-1489, addressed to Johannes Faella, then podestà of Trento, by various bishops of Trent]; Table of contents: 2. f.3r-8v: [Grants by lords of Verona to successive members of the Faella family dated 1332-1406]; Table of contents: 3. f.9r-13r: [Grant of the title of Count of Sona and Count Palatine to Giovanni Faella, his brothers, and their descendants; and grant of title of doctor of canon and civil law to Giovanni Faella, 1468, with later notarial signatures, 1502 / Emperor Frederick III]; Table of contents: 4. f.13v-15r: [Degree of doctor of civil law granted by the university of Padua to Giovanni Faella, 1480]; Table of contents: 5. f.15r: [Passport issued for Giovanni Faella as Veronese envoy to the doge of Venice, 1503 / Bernardo Bembo, podestà of Verona]; Table of contents: 6. f.15r-17r: [Official documents related to Giovanni Faella's work as architect: from Leonardo Loredano, doge of Venice, on the cathedral church of Verona; and from podestàs Bernardo Bembo and Angelo Trevisan on the Ponte della Pietra, the Ponte Piagnola, and the Ponte Navium, dated 1502-1504]; Table of contents: 7. f.18r-18v: [Order to Giovanni Lodovico Faella to accompany Matthaeus Lang, imperial vicar general in Italy, from Mantua on an embassy to Pope Julius II in Rome, 1511 / Emperor Maximilian I]; Table of contents: 8. f.19v-23v: [Deed of purchase of land by Giovanni di Jacopo Faella, dated 1411]; Collation: Parchment, 26 + i (parchment); 1² 2-3¹⁰ 4⁴; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 30 long lines (f. 3r-18v) and 36 long lines (f. 19v-23v); ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines in lead visible on some leaves (f. 3r-19r) and ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines (f. 19v-26v); Script: Written in humanistic script by Francesco di Andrea Ruffo (f. 3-17) and Alessandro di Nicolo Medico (f. 19-23), with a few documents copied by another hand (f. 1r-2v, 18r-18v).; Decoration: 1 11-line illuminated initial (f. 3r) and 3 illuminated initials (4- to 8-line) in left margins (f. 6v, 9r, 13v) by a pupil or follower of Veronese illuminator Felice Feliciano; red and blue paragraph marks on one opening (f. 3v-4r).; Binding: Original Veronese calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled; 4 catches, no clasps; rebacked.; Origin: Written in Verona in 1504.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 48

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)