VENICE MUDA TO ALEXANDRIA IN 1504 Ref 431 f.5v

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

PLEASE NOTE: -

“MUDA” is a singular word relating to one of the mercantile convoys sailing out of Venice each year.

“MUDE” is a plural word relating to several, or all, of the mercantile convoys sailing out of Venice each year.

 

27 leaves, leaf size 249mm x172mm (9 3/4ins. X 6 8/10ins.) with a text block of 172mm x 98mm (6 8/10ins. x 3 17/20ins.).

Single column, 29 lines in a superb, elegant, humanistic cursive minuscule script in black, probably all written by the same scribe. Many ascenders on the top line, and descenders on the bottom line, have been embellished.

 

This manuscript include two texts, the first being the Regulations of the Muda of Venice to Alexandria, and the second being the Journal of the Muda to Alexandria that set sail from Venice on 21st. May, 1504. The manuscript was probably written in that city in that year.

 

 

A FULL DESCRIPTION IS ATTACHED TO THE OVERVIEW.

 

Folio 5 verso (Original Folio 6 verso)

 

TRANSCRIPTION

 

(39)

que vis sit, audeat levare, vel carricare, aut levari vel carricari

facere aliquas mercationes cuius cunq conditionis existant infra Cul -

phum pro portando extra Culphum cum aliquo navigio armato, ex -

cepto auro et argento sup pena perdendi totum, qd fuerit carricatum

vel levatum in dictis navigiis armatis, de quo non potest fieri ulla

gran, vel remissio, aut predictorum revocato, sub pena dutum. C C .

pro quolibet pone te vel consentiente partem in contrarium. Et est

commisstim Cathevere, Capitaneo postarum, officialibus levantis

promisoribus Communis, et aliis officialibus contrabannorum q in -

quirant de contrafacientibus, et penas exigant habendo partem ut

de aliis sui officii : Et si fuerit accusator per quem sciatur veritas heat

medietatem, et sit de credentia : Et alia medietas dividatur inter Coe

et officiales primo invenientes.

(40).Nostri rectores qui ad eorum regimina cum aliquibus galies mercati

ire volverint, vel ab ipsis regiminibus remeare Venetias debeant cum

patronis in facto nabuli convenire quod si erit bene quidem, Alioqu

nos cum consiliariis nostris. & Capitibus de Iuadraginta p maiorem par -

tem nostrum debemus terminare quatum ipsi Rectores solvere debeant

Iam eundo q redeundo. Et si aliquis am basiator communis qui iret cum

dictis galeis vel rediret non audeat, nec debeat aliquis solvere pro

nabulo.

(41)Nullus pertonus galearum de mercato . S . Cypri. Alexandrie. Romanie

& Thane : ullo modo vel formo audeat per se vel alium recipere ut

recipi facere merces aliquas in galies sine bulleta nostrum officialium

in Venetiis, & extra Venetias sine Bulleta nostrorum Capitaneorum

sub pena libr mille parvorum pro quolibet contrafaciente, & qualibet

nice in suis propriis bonis, & ultra hoc sit primatus patronia Gale -

arum de mercato. Comiti vero : Patroni, posticii, & scribe dictarum

galeao, si contra fecerint in Levando seu levari faciendo mercatioes

 

 

Folio 5 Verso (Original Folio 6 verso)

 

POSSIBLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

 

39. …...... want you to be, or to dare to raise or carry or make some lesser trade carrying acquisition conditions under Culphum for carrying out of Culphum with an armed boad, with the exception of gold and silver, upon pain of losing the whole of that which is carried or recovered from the vessels by the said armed men of which there can be no great number, or release of the aforesaid parts, under the penalty of the leaders 200 to put yourself in the place of any part of or with the consent of those to the contrary. And it is commissioned that Cathavere, the next captain, officer of the Levant promises the generals and other officials who, on the other hand enquire about opposing the penalties required on part of the others of his office, shall be the plaintiff, by whom it may be known, and if part of it be half of the truth, and that it be believed then the first and the other half be divided between the commune and the officials of the finding.

40. Our leaders who wish to go to their governments with their galleys or from the government for the markets must return to Venice when in fact junior patrons agree that it is indeed well, otherwise we, with our councelors, and the heads of the greater part of our dircetors must determine adequate, and they must now go and pay it back. And if anyone who was to go with the kind words of the common galleys or not dare to return then no man is bound to pay for the juniors.

41. No owners of the galleys for the markets of Cyprus, Alexandria Romania and Thane who have the capacity to operate in any way or form shall dare to be received on their own, or by any other document do without the wages of our officers in Venice and some in France, and Venice and beyond many of the small documents for any of our captains, opposed, under the penalty of the book and any of those like their own proper good men, and this is no longer the primacy of the patrons of the galleys of the market. The committee sais: the owner at the rear, and the cscribe of the said galley, if they have done well in relieving or lessening the performance of the merchants ….............

 

 

Done