Details

Subjects:

Taxation -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Taxation.
History.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- To 1797.
Italy -- Venice.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.
Statutes.

Language:

Italian and Latin.

Summary:

Capitulary containing copies of Venetian statutes pertaining to officials concerned with financial matters (Tre savii sopra la remisio di conti, f. 34r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary parchment) + 64 + i (contemporary parchment); [ii], 1-16, 16, 19-63; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Folio 18 is lacking. The original numbers appear to be out of sequence; these have been corrected in a later hand. Folios 34-60 have traces of an earlier, separate numeration.
Script: Written in humanistic and cursive scripts by multiple hands.
Decoration: Illuminated foliate border, with the motto "Iustus Dominus edilexit iusticiam" in the margins, miniature of the lion of St. Mark, three coats of arms with the initials I. R., I. D. and F. P., and the date 11 January 1519 (f. 1r); decorated border, with two illuminated initials, a scroll with the illuminated motto "nomine dissimiles non mente", three coats of arms with initials A. E., M. M. and B. B., and the date 1528 (f. 34r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Venice, from 1519 (f. 1r) to 1631 (f. 16r).
Recto of front flyleaf contains the notation "2o" (with superscript "o").

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Edward Cheney, (bookplate and note, inside upper cover: E.C. Venice, March 26, 1835, given to me by Rawdon Brown).
Formerly owned by John Ruskin at Brantwood (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Maggs Bros., London, 1953.

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. 158 (Ms. Lea 49).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 59

Contributor:

Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, former owner.

OCLC:

155962864