VENICE MUDA TO ALEXANDRIA IN 1504 Ref 431 f.4r

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 4 recto (Original Folio 5 recto)

 

TRANSCRIPTION

 

(32)

Culphi,ordmatum, et firmatum est per nostra consilia, et sic servabis

q Capitaneus Galearum Culphi sit et esse debeat Capitanens generalis

dictarum galearum, et omnium navigiorum nostrorum armatorum &

disarmatorum, et facere Capitaneariam dones erunt simul.

(33)OMnes bulletas quas extra Venetias fieri facies pro cari eando merca -

tiones in galeis debeas facere ordinate registrari, & seribi in uno qua -

terno ut bene appareant, Et similiter debeas comittere patronis gale -

arum tibi commissarum, q onmes bullete que facte fuerint p te pro car -

ricondo debeant p sim seribam notari facere, & diligenter registra -

ri : Salvando tamen bulletas predictas ne perdantur, quos omnes

quaternos tu, et Patroni praedicti simul cum dictis cedulis dare

teneamini in vestro reditu, & prontare exordinariis quibus com -

missum est q debeant disearricare galeas iuxta formam dictorum

quaternorum et cedularum.

(34)QUicunq patronus approbatus p nostra consilia qui exinerit remane -

re in aliqua parte aliqua causa, nisi causa infirmitatis sue persone

que sit talis : q acceptet per Capitaneum armatae, et ut in isto cau

Capitanei ponant alium sufficientiorem quem poterunt, et contrafacien -

tes cadant ad penam libr quinq pro quolibet, & quolibet vice et com -

misum est advocatoribus comunis in Venetiis, et Capitano ex Venetiis

q predicta faciant observari, & exigant a contrafacientibus penam

predictam de qua haenant medietatem, et reliquum sit cois. Et si ad -

vocatores erunt negligentes ad excutiendum dictam penam, cadant

de tantundem, & Domini de nocte exigant penam ab advocatoribus

et Capitanus vel Advocatores sub pena libr ducenorum pro quolibet

ponente vel consentiente partem in contrarium.

(35)ET teneris dare sacramentum omnibus mercatoribus galearum tibi

 

Folio 4 recto (Original Folio 5 recto)

 

POSSIBLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

 

32. …................ Culpho, ordered and confirmed by our plans, and so perfect that the said captain Captain General of the said galley Culpho and and all our galleys and boats both armed and unarmed and made accountable to him.

33. All those armed galleys that are in the same trade that that can get together outside of Venice should do so in order to be registered, and at greater length one in four appear as well to be similarly bound to the committee of the patrons of the galleys, yourself have also committed, that all the armed galleys have been made available to you should be noted by the scribe, and carefully registered, so that those armed shall not be lost, and that all four are together with with the above mentioned patrons and to give assurance of committing to a safe return extraordinarily quickly which should be decided upon according to the terms agreed by these four galleys.

34. Whosoever is the patron that is accordingly approved to remain in any part of our plans has any cause, who is such a person, unless it be for reasons of: a person for reasons of: a person the be accepted by the captain of armed men, and that in the case of the captain's account, which will be able to be put by someone else more adequate, and, opposed to the punishment of five pounds for each one, then after it was discussed and at any time, as is common in Venice and from Venice, and the captain may have observed the aforesaid, and, opposed the penalty aforesaid, of which ????? half of the demand and the rest of the costs. And if the advocates carelessly strike off a penalty imposed, so much of the loss, and of the increasing requirements from the penalty of the advocates and the captain or the advocates under the pain of two hundred pounds for each reckoning or with the consent of the other.

35. And being bound to you the secrets of all the merchant's galleys ….............

 

 

Done