Details

Subjects:

Vigliano d'Asti (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.
Vigliano d'Asti (Italy) -- Statutes -- 15th century.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Statutes of Vigliano d'Asti (f. 1r-14r). The statutes are preceded by a section entitled, "Rubrice capitulorum et statutorum ... " (f. [i]r-[iii]r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, i (11th-century parchment) + 18 + i (11th-century parchment); 1², 2¹², 3⁴; [ii] 1-14, [15-16]; contemporary foliation in Roman numerals, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 1-6 marked a-f (except f. 4, which is a later replacement) and folio 13 marked g, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Decoration: Red 3-line initial (f. 1r); rubricated throughout.
Binding: 15th-century Italian half-calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Vigliano, Italy in the mid-15th century, with additions and emendations dated 1488 (f. 14r).
Folios 4 and 8 have been rewritten in a different hand, apparently with information added to the manuscript from another source; at the bottom of f. 4r is the inscription "Corector ego idem Ansermus Robusti." At the bottom of f. 14r Ansermus again signs his name, identifies himself as "rector in civitate Alexandrie" and gives the date 18 May 1488; he further notes that he extracted these statutes from a "certain volume" with the addition of other clauses which had to be obtained from another source by one Anthonius de Pectinaciis of the town of Alexandria. Ansermus again signs his name on f. 16v.
The text block is wrapped in an early 11th-century fragment of a homiliary, preserving Augustine's Sermones in Vetero Testamento, Sermon 41, and his In Evangelium Johannis Tractatus, Tr. 24.
The text block is in good condition, but it is pulling away from the cover. The leather of the spine is badly deteriorated and almost entirely split apart.

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. 159 (Ms. Lea 53).
Fontana, L. Bibliografia degli statuti dei comuni dell'Italia superiore (Turin, 1907), III, p. 356.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 55

Contributor:

Ansermus, Robusti, scribe, corrector.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Related Work:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. In Evangelium Iohannis tractatus. Fragments.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Sermons. Fragments.

OCLC:

155962735

Web link:

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