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[Statutes and ordinances].

Publication:
[Città di Castello, Italy], [14--]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
19 leaves : parchment ; 318 x 239 mm
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Arrangement:
Consists of three separate fragments of a codex.
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.
Notarial documents.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin, with many 16th- and 17th-century entries and marginalia in Italian.
Summary:
Miscellaneous collection of laws, statutes and ordinances of Città di Castello, in Umbria in Italy. Also includes lists of holidays; roll of citizens by parish (parishes listed are St. Floridus, St. Jacobus and St. Egidius); record of fees collected, ranging in date 1514-1566; notarial documents; etc.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Signatures: Contemporary arabic numerals, lower left corner, first recto of quire. The two extant quires (second and third fragments) have the signatures 3 and 4.
Collation: Paper, 19; 1¹²(-10), [2⁸], 3-4⁸; [2?], 11, 21-37; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Quire 2 is missing, as is all but one bifolium of quire 1. References in this record are to contemporary foliation.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive and humanistic scripts by many different hands. Much of the text has faded and is difficult to read.
Decoration: Some use of red and blue ink (f. 2r-2v); manicules (f. 29r); notarial signets (f. 29r, 29v).
Origin: Written in Città di Castello (Italy) in the early and late 15th century, with some 16th- and 17th-century notes, additions and marginalia.
Extant second folio bears the contemporary folio number 11. This was probably f. 11 of the first quire, presumably a quire of six bifolia. The conjoint of f. 11 (i.e., the extant first folio) would thus have been f. 2 of the manuscript. The remaining two quires are numbered f. 21-36, and the extant back cover is numbered f. 37. Thus one quire of 4 bifolia (8 f.) is missing, in addition to 10 folios of the first quire.
First fragment is a single bifolium; its first folio (f. 2 of the manuscript) is torn in half vertically. The second and third fragments are quires. Original cover was limp vellum; only the back is extant (= f. 37). All the fragments are wrapped in two 19th-century paper leaves.
Some worm holes in first fragment.
Penn Provenance:
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. 162 (Ms. Lea 69).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 91
OCLC:
155962331