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Copia del capitolare delli ecc[elentissi]mi sig[no]ri inq[uisito]ri di stato : con le aggionte che li sono state fatte.

Format/Description:
Manuscript
68 leaves : paper ; 244 x 180 (208 x 130) mm bound to 255 x 191 mm
Production:
[Venice], [1700?]
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Subjects:
Venice (Italy) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Rules and regulations of the inquisitors of state of the Venetian Republic beginning with the proceedings of the Great Council of June 16, 1504; proceedings of the Council of Ten of June 19, 1504, and continuing with the "Capitolar antico," the regulations issued June 23, 1504, followed by two supplements. According to bookseller's description (on file in Library) these regulations provided for a system of espionage covering all of Venetian society.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century paper) + 68 + i (18th-century paper); [1-68]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 24 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: 18th-century marbled paper.
Origin: Written in Venice, ca. 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by H.P. Kraus, 1956.
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 93).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 558
Contributor:
Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989, former owner.
OCLC:
209572756