Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Breviary -- Specimens.
Catholic Church.
Breviary (Catholic Church).
Castino (Italy) -- History.
Castino (Italy) -- Politics and government.
Castino (Italy) -- Statutes.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Statutes of Castino in Italy (f. 1r-21r). Includes a table of contents (tabula suprascriptorum capitulorum) on f. 21r-22v. Folio 23 contains additions dated 1539 and 1540.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from inscription in later hand f. [i] recto and from upper cover.
Collation: Parchment and paper, 26; [iii], 1¹⁰, 2⁸, 3⁶(-2), [iii]; i (11th- or 12th-century parchment) + ii (contemporary paper) + 23 + ii (contemporary paper) + i (11th- or 12th-century parchment); 1-18, 20-23; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a semi-humanistic script, with comments in several different hands; pastedowns written in transitional script (or protogothic script).
Decoration: 6-line initial in purple, green, pink, and blue (f. 1r); coat of arms in green, blue, pink, purple and white (f. 1r); extensive use of red for headings, initials, capitals, and paragraph marks.
Binding: 15th-century Italian wooden boards, with two leather straps connecting front to back, one detached. Pastedowns have been loosened (they were from the 11th/12th-century breviary fragment used to wrap the text block). The text block is completely detached from this cover.
Origin: Written in Castino, Italy in 1471 (f. upper cover, [i] recto, [ii] verso).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giuseppe Combetti of Turin (Zacour-Hirsch; Fontana).
Formerly owned by the Lib. Antiquaria Bourlot, Turin (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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 54).
Fontana, L. Bibliografia degli statuti dei comuni dell'Italia superiore (Turin, 1907), I, p. 294.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 50.

OCLC:

155962642

Web link:

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