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    • Title:Doges and families of Venice.
    • Published/Created:Venice, [ca. 1553-1554]
    • Physical Description:ff. 172 : paper.
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    • Notes:Script: Copied by two hands. A (ff.IIr and 1r-84v): Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; B (ff. 85r-170r): Humanistica Cursiva Currens.
      Painted coats of arms, those in art. 3 in decorative cartouches. Large decorative painted initials for each family name.
      The top and the lower corners of the final leaves badly damaged by moist, with loss of some text.
      Binding: Date? Pasteboard.
      In Italian.
      Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
    • Access and use:Material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript on paper of 1) Note on the reign of the first Doge of Venice, Pauluccio Anafesto (697-717). 2) History of Venice from its legendary foundation to 695. 3) Alphabetical list of Venetian noble families, with their coats of arms and notes on their history. 4) History of the Doges of Venice up to Francesco Venier, elected 1554, d. 1556, with their coats of arms.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:Doges and Families of Venice. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Heraldry.
      Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
      Nobility--Italy.
      Venice (Italy)--History.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--16th century.