Frontispiece to Oratio Gratulatoria to Doge Cristoforo Moro (Add. 14787, f.6v), c.1462-3 (vellum)

Add. 14787, f. 6v Attributed to Franco dei Russi. c.1462–3 Title: BERNARDI BEMBI, Veneti patricii, Gratulatio ad Christophorum Maurum, Venetorum Principem, pro clarissimo divini atque humani juris scholasticorum ordine Patavino habita; cum præfatione ad Ludovicum [Searampum], S. Laurentii in Damaso Presbyterum Cardinalem. On vellum, with two miniatures prefixed, beautifully executed, in which the arms of the Doge, of the Cardinal and of Bembo are introduced. This was no doubt the presentation copy from the author, and must have been written in 1462, the date of Moro's accession as Doge. Duodecimo. [14,787.]