Walters Ms. W.479, Panegyricus Leonardo Lauredano Panegyricus Leonardo Lauredano Sigismondi Burgi Sigusmundus Burgus Principal cataloger Berlin, Nicole Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This manuscript is a ceremonial copy of a panegyric (a speech or text of praise) in honor of Leonardo Lauredano (1436-1521), Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death in 1521. It was pronounced by Sigusmundus Burgus, a knight and lawyer from the city of Cremona. Folio 2r is elaborately illuminated with a Roman-style inscription of gold letters on blue ground that dates the panegyric to April 21, 1503. That this manuscript is an official, ceremonial document is confirmed by the placement of the Lion of St. Mark, a symbol of the Republic of Venice, in the upper margin above the inscription. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.479 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 13v Panegyricus Leonardo Lauredano SIGISMONDI BURGI EQUITIS / ET IURECONSULTI / CREMONEN(SIS) / ORATORIS PANAEGYRICUS / LEONARDO LAUREDANO OPTIMO / HUMANISSIMOQUE PRINCIPI / VENETIIS DICTUS / ANNO A SALUTIFERA DEI / I[N?][ ][ ]RNATIONE / MDIIII.XII KLD. MAII Diuturno mentis desiderio Ceremonial copy of a panegyric in honor of Leonardo Lauredano, Doge of Venice

Medium-weight cream-colored parchment

 Foliation: i + 13 + i27.8 19.5 19.5 11.5 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos; fol. 1 is blank yet foliated

Collation unable to be confirmed; likely a single quire of 12 with additions Fol. 13 hooked onto fol. 1(?)

 Humanist miniscule script; title in Roman capitals Title page (fol. 2r) with heraldic borders; lion of St. Mark with book on a parapet above inscription written with shell gold, flanked on either side by the arms of Lauredano; unidentified heraldry in the left and right margins on purple ground with gold and gray vines; at the bottom margin two confronted tritons holding a shield with heraldry; four-line decorated initial "D" with blue vines; text in black ink Border with Lion of St. Mark and heraldry of Leonardo Lauredano; decorated initial "D" Opening page of the panegyric to Leonardo Lauredano Illuminated border; decorated initial "D," 4 lines

Dark-brown, goat(?) leather; gold and blind-tooled with the name "FRAN/CESCO PA/CIOTTO," the first name and surname on the outside upper and lower boards respectively; the pastedowns and endleaves of modern nineteenth-century paper; two holes on each board that once anchored ties

 Dated April 21, 1503 CE Venice, Italy Created in Venice before April 21, 1503 CE in praise of Leonardo Lauredano (1436-1521), Dodge of Venice Leo S. Olschki, bookseller, Florence Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo S. Olschki before 1931 (inv. no 35783 written in pencil on the upper board, inside) Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 842, no. 488. Baltimore Museum of Art. The Greek Tradition in Painting and the Minor Arts: an exhibition sponsored jointly by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery from May 15 through June 25, 1939. Baltimore Museum of Art. 1939, p. 84, cat. no. 113. Kristeller, Paul Oskar, and Judith Wardman. Alia itinera III and Italy III: Sweden to Yugoslavia, Utopia, supplement to Italy (A-F). Iter Italicum. 5. London: Warburg Institute, 1990, p. 215. Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Judaism Talmud Collection of Sermons Notable Notable binding Textbook Scholarly compendium Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Literature Japanese Japan Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Literature Italian Codex Colophon Heraldry Humanistic Illumination Manuscript Original binding Walters Art Museum Italy 16th century Literature -- Prose Book Medallion Friendship Painting