Details

Subjects:

Statutes -- Italy -- Soncino.
Statutes.
Soncino (Italy) -- History.
Soncino (Italy) -- Politics and government.
Italy -- Soncino.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Statutes of Soncino, Italy. Also includes a register of the 655 chapter headings (f. i verso).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. i recto).
Foliation: Paper, 155; 1⁸, 2-13¹², 14⁴( -1); [viii], 13-159; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Gatherings signed with contemporary arabic numerals, 2-13, upper left corner, first recto of each gathering. Catchwords at the bottom right of each verso. First gathering of text after table of contents is missing, so first extant quire is numbered 2.
Script: Written in a cursive secretarial script by a single hand.
Binding: 17th-century Italian cardboard wrapper with woodblock-printed botanical pattern. Wrapper is not attached to book block. Remains of original paper upper cover; lower cover and majority of spine lacking. Sewing of some quires is loose, particularly the last few leaves which are nearly detached and are torn, faded and extremely difficult to read.
Origin: Written in Soncino, Italy, in the 17th century.
This manuscript is not listed in L. Fontana, Bibliografia degli statuti dei comuni dell'Italia superiore (Turin, 1907).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Siba, Palazzo di Breza, Milan (stamp, 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. 160 (Ms. Lea 58).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 51

OCLC:

155962664