Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

[Venice] Ordini delli advocati della città di Vinetia, Venice, 1537, contemporary Venetian Fortuna binding

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8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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[VENICE]. Ordini delli advocati della citta di Vinetia Statuiti per il collegio delli XX. Savii sopra le lezze & confirmati per il maggiore conseglio. Venice: Giovanni Padovano & Venturino Ruffinelli, 18 May 1537

RARE STATUTES OF THE VENETIAN ADVOCATES OF SAN MARCO AND THE RIALTO, IN A CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN FORTUNA BINDING. The volume contains rules for lawyers in Venice with special positions of trust in civil and criminal cases. There is a manuscript index at the beginning and a manuscript leaf at the end containing a copy of a decree by the Maggior Consiglio, dated 17 January 1539 (listing changes in some of the regulations). Breslauer suggested that this copy was bound at the order of the Signoria of Venice, arguing, "The designation ‘pars aurea’ must surely be understood as the republican equivalent of the medieval ‘pars regia’, i.e. the fisc, treasury or exchequer of the Venetian state".

Other bindings decorated by similar stamps of Fortuna are offered as lots 1605 (Boccaccio) and 1611 (Boscán).

4to (206 x 143 mm). Roman type. collation: A-E⁴ F² (F2 blank): 22 leaves. Title-page with woodcut border, two woodcut initials.

binding: Contemporary Venetian brown morocco (214 x 153 mm), sides panelled in blind and with single gilt rectangular rule with half-circle in centre of each side, fleurons at corners and two within the frame on lower cover, in the centre the figure of Fortune with wind-filled sail standing on a dolphin, two rectangular gilt panels on upper cover with the inscription "PARS AUREA| VENETORUM", spine plain with criss-cross lines in compartments, gilt edges, housed in a modern black cloth box. (Binding unrestored, with one or two minor wormholes and head of spine slightly chipped.)

provenance: Partially inked over seventeenth-century purchase note on flyleaf "emptus a Jo: Franco [...] 23 Aprilii 1650"—Sotheby's, 9 May 1985, lot 485, to—Martin Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 110, no. 27. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from Martin Breslauer Inc. references: USTC 763913 (listing 2 institutional copies outside of Italy); Edit16 CNCE 75879; Sander 7518

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