Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 95. (Budapest, 2001)

SZÉPE, HELENA KATALIN: Civic and artistic identity in illuminated Venetian documents

University Library, and images of it can be viewed on the Digital Scriptorium Test Database on the Internet.

10 The manuscript can be dated to ca. January 1367 m.v. (1368) to 1382, the dates of Andrea Contarini's dogeship.

11 There were six Councillors to the Doge, representing the six sestieri, or districts, of Venice. The Councillors were elected by the Senate and served terms of no longer than 12 months. Their capitolare specifies that they were to retain and read both the promissione of the Doge and their own eapitolare, and return the manuscripts at the close of their term, so it seems that the manuscripts, although sometimes written out for particular councillors, were recycled.

12 The illumination of the San Francisco manuscript is stylistically close to that of the Antiphonary of the Scuola of Santa Maria délia Carità of 1365, signed by Giustino del fu Gherardino da Forli, but whether Giustino was both scribe and illuminator of the Antiphonary, or just one or the other, is debated.

13 The opening figure initial T of the oath (7wro...') is a full-length image of a sturdy Councillor, who points to a quote from Psalm XCI, 13 (King James 92:12): 'Justus ut palma florebit et sicut cedrus ... ' ('The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, he shall grow like the cedars of Lebanon") on a banner that is being unscrolled by a smiling angel.

14 This quote from the psalms as a claim as well as exhortation to right rulership is an early example of a practice that will become common in sixteenthcentury dogali. The squat proportions of the councillor and his prominently modeled face are found in the opening miniature of the Antiphonary perhaps illuminated by Giustino, and the sweet, rather common face of the angel is also characteristic of figures ascribed to that artist. 10 J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, De Bellis La. 12. Fully described and illustrated February 8, 2001 at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/scriptoriwn/. Many thanks to Consuelo Dutschke for alerting me to this important and useful reference source. Doge Andrea Contarini (1368-1382) was buried in a rather simple tomb in the Augustinian convent of Santo Stefano. Wolters, W., Scultura veneziana gotica 130011460, Venice 1976, 205, cat. 120; Pincus, D., The Tombs of the Doges of Venice, London 2000. 157-158, no. 35. 11 Da Mosto, A., / Dogi di Venezia nella vita pubblica e privata, Milan, 1966, 138-140. 12 This is spelled out in the first chapter of the councillor's eapitolare, which is titled: "Di> habendis domi capitulari, et promissione Ser.mi D. Ducis, quae in fine magistratus curiae restituti debeant"

. "Etiam teneor habere inscriptis domi meae unum capitulare, et legere ipsum totum; vel facere legi mihi ipsum semel omni mense ad minus; et similiter promissionem D.ni Ducis, et ipsam legere, vel mihi legi facere singulis duobus mensibus semel ad minus..."-This text is quoted from folio lv. of the Capitolare consiliarum Ve. of 1561, now at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., ex Phillipps Ms. 9687. This copy was not illuminated, and may have been a record copy originally kept in the chancery. 13 Venice, Marciana Library, Lat. II, 119 (=2426). Levi d'Ancona, M. Giustino del fu Gherardino da Forli e gli affrcschi perduti del Guariento nel Palazzo Ducale di Venezia, Arte VenetalX (1967) 34-44, figs 43 and 45; Gibbs, R., Giustino del fu Gherardino da Forli, in Dictionary of Art, vol. 12. 1996, 76. 14 The quote might refer to the actual processions on Palm Sunday, when the Doge and his magistrates, including the councillors, carried palm fronds covered in gold leaf in Piazza San Marco as a parallel to Christ's entry into Jerusalem, and a general symbol of memory of the martyrs and victory over enemies. A precedent for an historiated initial with a full-length image of a Councillor pointing to his capitolare opening text is evident in the opening leaf to the Capitolare of the Councillor (Correr III, 326, fol. 4r) with the Promissione of Doge Andrea Dandolo (Correr III, 327, f. 3a), and therefore dateable to about 1343.