[Statuta].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Castello del Vivaro (Italy)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Castello (Florence, Italy)--History--16th century.
• Statutes.

Genre:

• Codices.
• Statutes.
• Manuscripts, Italian.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Acquired, 1955.

Physical Description:

68 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 219 x 157 (158 x 95) mm bound to 224 x 160 mm + 1 note

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1575 and 1599]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Statutes of Castello del Vivaro, in six books. The beginning of the manuscript is lacking, as is the beginning of the table of contents (previously before f. 60).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Contains 17th-century note (f. 23r): Ex[aminatus]; x februarii 1634 pro Pasqualis q[uondam] Thome cons. Annibalim Christophori. Hyacintus Calamarius Sub.
• Collation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 67 + iii (modern paper); 1¹⁶(-1) 2¹⁶(-1) 3¹⁶(-1) 4¹⁴ 5¹²(-4, 10, 11, 12); 10-24, 26-70, [viii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-67]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. According to the contemporary foliation, folios 1-9, 25, and 71 are missing; unnumbered stub with no loss of text between f. 38-39. Catchwords, lower right verso. References in this record are to the modern foliation. Link to collation model at end of record.
• Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
• Decoration: Faint sketch of an infant in red, with caption HOC EST SA (f. 66r).
• Binding: Modern vellum with marbled endpapers. Paper is fragile; edges are tearing and fraying. Paper is badly stained and shows evidence of worm damage. Binding should be treated with care.
• Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Castello del Vivaro mentioned on f. 4r; this might be the same as Castello in the vicinity of Florence.
• Fragment of unidentified Italian document, 18th or 19th century, pasted on verso of front endleaf. A small fragment of another later Italian document is laid in the manuscript.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 167 (Ms. Lea 92).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 100

OCLC:

155962403

Online:

Collation model