Details

Subjects:

Faella, Giovanni.
Buildings -- Italy -- Verona.
Buildings.
Italy -- Verona.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

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.

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]
2. f.3r-8v: [Grants by lords of Verona to successive members of the Faella family dated 1332-1406]
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]
4. f.13v-15r: [Degree of doctor of civil law granted by the university of Padua to Giovanni Faella, 1480]
5. f.15r: [Passport issued for Giovanni Faella as Veronese envoy to the doge of Venice, 1503 / Bernardo Bembo, podestà of Verona]
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]
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]
8. f.19v-23v: [Deed of purchase of land by Giovanni di Jacopo Faella, dated 1411]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 3r).
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.

Penn 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.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 150 (LJS 48).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 88-89 (cat. 14).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 48.

Contributor:

Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, 1463-1525.
Bembo, Bernardo, 1433-1519.
Trevisan, Angelo, -1507 or 1508.
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519.
Ruffo, Francesco di Andrea, scribe.
Medico, Alessandro di Nicolo, scribe.
Cron, B. S., former owner.
Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896-1969, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

700521483

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model