A GROUP OF LEAVES AND CUTTINGS from Commissioni and other documents, on...

A GROUP OF LEAVES AND CUTTINGS from Commissioni and other documents, on vellum and paper [Venice, 16th-18th centuries]

A variety of sizes, ranging from 60 x 60mm to 324 x 220mm. 18 leaves (4 on paper), 2 bifolia and 4 cuttings, including: 7 single leaves with full-page miniatures with coats of arms (mostly 18th-century), 7 leaves and 2 bifolia from commissioni, 4 cuttings from commissioni, 1 manuscript title-page on paper for a work entitled Lettere, et modi per comporle di Geo. Francesco Loredano nobile Veneto, 1 manuscript title-page on paper for a Relatione di Firenze del Secretario Fideli ritornato dal Duca Cosimo de Medici, 1 engraved portrait of Cardinal Antonio Marino Priuli, Bishop of Vicenza (1700-1772) and 1 broadside printed on 22 December 1705 inviting the members of the Confraternity of St John the Baptist to accompany Galeazzo Boselli, condemned for various murders and attempted murders, to his place of execution.