Details

Subjects:

Sette Comuni (Italy) -- History.
Sette Comuni (Italy) -- Privileges and immunities.
Sette Comuni (Italy) -- Statutes.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- To 1797.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Sette Comuni was a collective name for the seven villages of Asiago, Enego, Foza, Gallio, Lusiana, Roano and Rotzo, in the Province of Vicenza on the plateau of Asiago (Altipiano d'Asiago) in Italy. Originally settled by Germans, they were ruled by Venice and granted privileges.

Summary:

Statutes and privileges of the Sette Comuni. Includes statutes from 1339 to 1568, with some additions to 1657.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 119; 1-94, [95-119]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by multiple hands, including that of Bartolomeus de Velo Luxiane (f. 1r).
Binding: Contemporary calf. First quire is pulling loose. The paper shows some worm damage and a good deal of water and mildew damage. The edges of many leaves are splitting and crumbling.
Origin: Written in Italy, 1568 (f. 1r)-1657 (f. 91r).
Complete photocopy shelved with the manuscript.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1962.

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. 218 (Ms. Lea 365).
Fontana, L. Bibliografia degli statuti dei comuni dell'Italia superiore (Turin, 1907), III, pp. 112-113.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 52

Contributor:

Bartolomeus, de Velo Luxiane, scribe.

OCLC:

155962838