VENICE: LIBRO DELL ACQUE. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Venice, circa 1610] 2°, 415 x 285mm, written in brown ink in a fine current bookhand by one scribe, ruled throughout, sepia-and-wash title and 73 leaves, including 6 DOUBLE PAGE MAPS IN WATERCOLOURS, with 12 additional blank leaves. [Watermarks very similar to Heywood 863]. Contemporary gilt-tooled limp vellum over paper boards PROVENANCE: Presumably produced for the Offico delle Acque of the city of Venice. CONTENTS: Title, showing four tritons in water, a female triton raising the city of Venice out of the sea and holds it aloft. folios 1-2. Introduction by Cristoforo Sabbadino engineer and 'proto' with the Officio delle Acque, written about 1555 folios 3-4. Coloured detailed map of Venice and its region, Come sta il paese al presente , at a scale of 3000 Veneziani (3 cm) by Jo.Andrea folios 5-8a. Arricordo dato per me Christofforo Sabadino ... per il levar il r 0 delle fiumari & della Laguna. With detailed computations folios 8b-15a Discorso fatto sopra l'aricordo mio, a di 30.Agosto 1552 folios 16-17. Double-page coloured map, covering the same area as that on ff 3-4. Secondo l'aricordo dicta me Christoforo Sabadin folios 18-27b. 'Cominciaro hora a risponder alla oppositioni. Le qualo fanno li antenori ...'. Containing depositions made by Domenigo dall'Abbaco da Padua, 1555, Paula da Castello, Turiacomi di Alberti, Zuane Carrera, all with 'responsi' folios 28-29. Double-page coloured map covering the same area as above, Secondo l'aricordo de Mastro Zuane Carera folios 30-35a. Response by Paulo di Castello, Domenego dall'Abbaco & Zuan Jacomo di Alberti, 1555 folios 36-37. Two coloured maps of Venice, both identically showing the Lido and the surrounding area with its rivers, but with different schemes for the river Brenta folios 38-39. Double-page coloured map, identical area to that on ff3-4 Secondo l'oppinione dicta M 0 Paulo da Castello e m o Domenico dalla Bacho a m 0 Zan Iac o di Alberti folios 40-60. 'Trattandoli delle cose della Laguna'. Reply by Sabadino to reports by Marco and Alvise Cornaro produced by the Officio delle Acqui folios 61-62. Coloured double-page map of the same region as on ff 3-4, Secondo l'oppinion del Marco Alvise Cornaro da Padoua folios 63-65a. Arricordo apprisentato nell' Collegio solenno per m c o m o Alvisio Cornaro l'anno 1557 folios 65b-73. Riposta fatta per me Christofforo Sabadino alla quarta et ultima scrittura di Marco Alvise Cornaro fatta separata dalle altro tre primi et apprisentatione all' Officio delle Acque. BACKGROUND TO THE ABOVE: As early as 1460, the Consiglio dei Dice decided to arrange for the execution of maps and plans to help control the network of waterways in the region of Venice. But its was only in the 16th century that three offices were created to supervise these projects. They were the 'Sevi alla Acque' in 1501, the 'Magistrato alle Acque' in 1505, followed by the 'Collegio alle Acque'. These offices were to co-ordinate and control the precarious balance between salt and fresh water and safeguard the Laguna. Therefore work began between 1507 and 1534 to direct the course of the rivers Brenta and Conche to the Laguna of Chioggia through the canal of Montalbano. In 1536 commenced also the building of fortifications 'Do Castelli' at the mouth of the Lido. The survival of Venice depended on the diversion of the course of rivers, but there was a conflict of interest between the 'Stato da Mar' and the 'Stato di Terra'. The two main protagonists, both engineers, had each a different solution to the problem. The first was Cristoforo Sabbadino who oppposed the agricultural interest in favour of the city, and wanted to extend the lagoon and use it to its fullest capacity, partly to defend the city against attack, but mainly as the 'sora comun' was rising due to sedimentation in the lagoon, with a project that would also affect rural irrigation of the province. The other was Alvise Cornaro who proposed closur
VENICE: LIBRO DELL ACQUE. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Venice, circa 1610] 2°, 415 x 285mm, written in brown ink in a fine current bookhand by one scribe, ruled throughout, sepia-and-wash title and 73 leaves, including 6 DOUBLE PAGE MAPS IN WATERCOLOURS, with 12 additional blank leaves. [Watermarks very similar to Heywood 863]. Contemporary gilt-tooled limp vellum over paper boards PROVENANCE: Presumably produced for the Offico delle Acque of the city of Venice. CONTENTS: Title, showing four tritons in water, a female triton raising the city of Venice out of the sea and holds it aloft. folios 1-2. Introduction by Cristoforo Sabbadino engineer and 'proto' with the Officio delle Acque, written about 1555 folios 3-4. Coloured detailed map of Venice and its region, Come sta il paese al presente , at a scale of 3000 Veneziani (3 cm) by Jo.Andrea folios 5-8a. Arricordo dato per me Christofforo Sabadino ... per il levar il r 0 delle fiumari & della Laguna. With detailed computations folios 8b-15a Discorso fatto sopra l'aricordo mio, a di 30.Agosto 1552 folios 16-17. Double-page coloured map, covering the same area as that on ff 3-4. Secondo l'aricordo dicta me Christoforo Sabadin folios 18-27b. 'Cominciaro hora a risponder alla oppositioni. Le qualo fanno li antenori ...'. Containing depositions made by Domenigo dall'Abbaco da Padua, 1555, Paula da Castello, Turiacomi di Alberti, Zuane Carrera, all with 'responsi' folios 28-29. Double-page coloured map covering the same area as above, Secondo l'aricordo de Mastro Zuane Carera folios 30-35a. Response by Paulo di Castello, Domenego dall'Abbaco & Zuan Jacomo di Alberti, 1555 folios 36-37. Two coloured maps of Venice, both identically showing the Lido and the surrounding area with its rivers, but with different schemes for the river Brenta folios 38-39. Double-page coloured map, identical area to that on ff3-4 Secondo l'oppinione dicta M 0 Paulo da Castello e m o Domenico dalla Bacho a m 0 Zan Iac o di Alberti folios 40-60. 'Trattandoli delle cose della Laguna'. Reply by Sabadino to reports by Marco and Alvise Cornaro produced by the Officio delle Acqui folios 61-62. Coloured double-page map of the same region as on ff 3-4, Secondo l'oppinion del Marco Alvise Cornaro da Padoua folios 63-65a. Arricordo apprisentato nell' Collegio solenno per m c o m o Alvisio Cornaro l'anno 1557 folios 65b-73. Riposta fatta per me Christofforo Sabadino alla quarta et ultima scrittura di Marco Alvise Cornaro fatta separata dalle altro tre primi et apprisentatione all' Officio delle Acque. BACKGROUND TO THE ABOVE: As early as 1460, the Consiglio dei Dice decided to arrange for the execution of maps and plans to help control the network of waterways in the region of Venice. But its was only in the 16th century that three offices were created to supervise these projects. They were the 'Sevi alla Acque' in 1501, the 'Magistrato alle Acque' in 1505, followed by the 'Collegio alle Acque'. These offices were to co-ordinate and control the precarious balance between salt and fresh water and safeguard the Laguna. Therefore work began between 1507 and 1534 to direct the course of the rivers Brenta and Conche to the Laguna of Chioggia through the canal of Montalbano. In 1536 commenced also the building of fortifications 'Do Castelli' at the mouth of the Lido. The survival of Venice depended on the diversion of the course of rivers, but there was a conflict of interest between the 'Stato da Mar' and the 'Stato di Terra'. The two main protagonists, both engineers, had each a different solution to the problem. The first was Cristoforo Sabbadino who oppposed the agricultural interest in favour of the city, and wanted to extend the lagoon and use it to its fullest capacity, partly to defend the city against attack, but mainly as the 'sora comun' was rising due to sedimentation in the lagoon, with a project that would also affect rural irrigation of the province. The other was Alvise Cornaro who proposed closur
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