[Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria].
Contributors: Mocenigo, Alvise I, 1507-1577.; Venier, Giovanni Antonio, fl. 1542-1574.
Published: 1574
Language: lat
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Law -- Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) -- Sources.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Washington (D.C.); Manuscripts, Italian -- Washington (D.C.); Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) -- History -- Sources.; Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) -- Politics and government -- Sources.
Other titles: De modo reddendi jus.
Notes: Ricci, S. de.  Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 115, V 4
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In Latin through mid-leaf 95a; the rest in the Venetian dialect of Italian.
Title supplied by cataloger; lost 1st leaf may have carried one.
Judging from similar Venetian documents, the lost first leaf is likely to have included the name of the doge of the period as the issuing authority; in this case, Alvise Mocenigo I.
In central medallion on upper cover of original binding: Ioanni Antonio Venerio.
Text begins (leaf 2a) with the first of altogether 244 chapter captions: De modo reddendi ius.
The text, issued to Giovanni Antonio Venier (previously Venetian ambassador to Rome) upon his assignment to Istria, combines information, directives, regulations, etc.; the Italian chapters (leaf 95a mid-page through 176a) are decisions, dated 1536-1574, of the Venetian Republic.
On 176a, formula: Jurasti honorem et proficuum [sic] Illustrissimi Dominii nostri, eundo, stando, et redeundo. In a different hand: Datti in nostro Ducali Palatio die xiij Martii ... MDLXXIIII. Signed: Aloy[sius] Zambert[us], Secret[arius]. On 179a-189b, table of contents.
Purchased by LC from H.P. Kraus; accessioned Feb. 27, 1947 (LL 5452F21).
Written in Venice, all by one professional scribe, on parchment of good quality, in large humanistic italic; decorated with cadelled red initials. Contemporary red morocco binding, covers tooled in gilt.