Details

Subjects:

Castello (Florence, Italy) -- History -- 16th century.
Statutes.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Statutes of Castello del Vivaro, in six books. The beginning of the manuscript is lacking, as is the beginning of the table of contents (previously before f. 60).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Contains 17th-century note (f. 23r): Ex[aminatus]; x februarii 1634 pro Pasqualis q[uondam] Thome cons. Annibalim Christophori. Hyacintus Calamarius Sub.
Collation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 67 + iii (modern paper); 1¹⁶(-1) 2¹⁶(-1) 3¹⁶(-1) 4¹⁴ 5¹²(-4, 10, 11, 12); 10-24, 26-70, [viii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-67]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. According to the contemporary foliation, folios 1-9, 25, and 71 are missing; unnumbered stub with no loss of text between f. 38-39. Catchwords, lower right verso. References in this record are to the modern foliation. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Decoration: Faint sketch of an infant in red, with caption HOC EST SA (f. 66r).
Binding: Modern vellum with marbled endpapers. Paper is fragile; edges are tearing and fraying. Paper is badly stained and shows evidence of worm damage. Binding should be treated with care.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Castello del Vivaro mentioned on f. 4r; this might be the same as Castello in the vicinity of Florence.
Fragment of unidentified Italian document, 18th or 19th century, pasted on verso of front endleaf. A small fragment of another later Italian document is laid in the manuscript.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1955.

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. 167 (Ms. Lea 92).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 100

OCLC:

155962403

Web link:

Collation model