Commission from Andrea Gritti to Stefano Trevisan from BL Add 20916, f. 4, f. 4

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Commission from Andrea Gritti to Stefano Trevisan from BL Add 20916, f. 4, f. 4

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Miniature in colours and gold, of a foliate border with medallions containing the winged lion of Mark, Francis of Assisi and Jerome, Nicholas of Bari and Stephen, and the Trivisan arms in a cartouche suspended by a ribbon before a hilly landscape, surrounding a bust portrait in profile of doge Andrea Gritti, the inscription in square capitals 'Nos Andreas / Griti / Dei Gratia Dux / Venetiarum et c[a]' and the beginning of the text of the commission: 'Committimus tibi / nobili viro Stephano Trevisano dilecto / civi et fideli nostro, q[ui] in Dei nomine / vadas in nostrum Potestatem et Rectore / Capitis Aggeris; quam civitatem, et / communitatem cum pertintiis eius / Reges a dic, quo intraveris in ipso / Regimine usq[e] ad menses xvi, et'. Image taken from f. 4 of Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Andrea Gritti to Stefano Trevisan (index Trivisan) as podestà and rettore of Caput Aggeris (Cavarzere, Veneto). Written in Latin.

Venice during the peak of its power.

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1300 - 1500
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