Antiphonary, illuminated by Benedetto Bordon (around 1500)

Third volume of the formerly 6-volume antiphonary for the Franciscan monastery San Nicolò della Lattuga in Venice, which moved to the monastery San Francesco in Lucignano in Valdicchiana at the end of the 18th century and was dissolved in the 19th century (reconstruction by Lilian Armstrong, 2011). Unknown before and strongly manipulated, the volume was acquired for the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek from a private owner in 2007 and received the call number Clm 30205 (images of sheet 7v, 151r).

Bauer-Eberhardt, Ulrike: Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatbibliothek. Part 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014. [Cat. 149]

Bartolomeo Zamberti, Comedia quam lepidissima Dolotechne (1502)

Presentation copy for Girolamo Savorgnano, 1466 – 1529, commander of Venice (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13078), with fine Venetian title ornamentation (image of sheet 1r).

Bauer-Eberhardt, Ulrike: Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatbibliothek. Part 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014. [Cat. 272]

Diploma and investiture of Andrea Bragadino as governor of Montagnana (1536)

Official investiture of the Venetian nobleman Andrea Bragadino by the Doge Andrea Gritti in the year 1536 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13096), who promoted him to governor of Montagnana, comparable to a commissione of the same Doge written likewise in 1536 for Marcatonio Foscarini (in Jena today, University and Regional Library, Ms. Bud.q. 56) (image of sheet 1r).

Bauer-Eberhardt, Ulrike: Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatbibliothek. Part 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014. [Cat. 274]

"Villa Fucchera" (1559)

One of five fictitious mansions, described in Venice by Antonio Francesco Doni (1513 – 1574). Besides the Villa Attavanta for Pandolfo Attavanti in Venice (Venice, Museo Correr, Ms. 1433), also the Villa Fucchera formed part of this list of five villas, which differed in line with the rank of their owners. The description of this villa was considered as lost until it could be discovered at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek under the call number Cod.ital. 36: It is a concept for a villa for Johann Jakob Fugger, written in his own hand and complemented by high-quality drawings by Antonio Francesco Doni in 1559 (images of sheets 1r, 2r).

Bauer-Eberhardt, Ulrike: Anton Francesco Doni, La villa Fucchera. In: Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche: Sezione 2 86 (2007), p. 97-114.

Bauer-Eberhardt, Ulrike: Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatbibliothek. Part 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014. [Cat. 276]

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