Details

Subjects:

Law -- Italy -- Città di Castello.
Law.
Città di Castello (Italy) -- Politics and government -- History.
Città di Castello (Italy) -- History -- Sources.
Italy -- Città di Castello.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Statutes of Città di Castello, in Umbria in Italy. The first section is dated 1261 (f. 1r-5v); the second section contains additions by the same scribe, also dated 1261 (f. 5v-6v); the third section contains further statutes, dated 1273 (f. 7r-14v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 3v and 7r.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 14 + i (modern paper); I³, II⁴; [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; single catchword in frame (f. 14v). Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in two columns of 50-55 lines; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by multiple hands, with marginalia and corrections also in various hands.
Binding: Vellum over cardboard, with ties woven through slits in front and back, 20th century; cover boards slightly warped, vellum split and peeling off boards around the edges.
Decoration: 2-line and 3-line initials in red and brown ink; extensive rubrication throughout; marginal drawing of two figures talking (f. 2v).
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 13th century; f. 5v gives date of 1261; f. 7v gives 1273.
Incipit has faded; it would be legible under ultraviolet light.
Colophon (f. 5v-6r) gives the name of the notary and the date: Ego ho[norius?] sancti jacobi filius Monete ...

Penn Provenance:

Archivio Magherini Grazziani (from Rudolf Hirsch's notes).
Purchased, 1954.

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. 161 (Ms. Lea 64).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 80

Contributor:

Honorius, Sancti Jacobi filius.

OCLC:

155962299

Web link:

Collation model