Details

Other Title:

Rubrica diversorum statutorum
Communis Lamporecchij pecuniaria sive restitutionis in integrum

Subjects:

Law -- Italy.
Law.
Italy.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Genealogies (histories)
Letters.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian and Latin.

Summary:

Privileges, statutes, and laws of Florence and Tuscany covering a wide range of topics: territorial divisions, customs, litigation, ecclesiastical exemption, the conduct of public officials, regulation of trade, inheritance, Jews, etc. Collection of 137 documents, both copies and originals, dated 1541-1715, most dated ca. 1650-1700, not in chronological order, each document is numbered in a contemporary hand; no. 114 (1 May 1700) and no. 136 (1714) are printed. Documents are indexed (f. i recto-viii verso).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading for index (f. i recto). Title on spine: Rubrica diversorum statutorum, with number B 262.
Printed document no. 136 (in Latin, 4 f.) is titled Communis Lamporecchij pecuniaria sive restitutionis in integrum; is headed with a genealogy of Luca Antonius; is signed Antonius Philippus Medices; and dated 1714.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 408 + i (contemporary paper); [1-400]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Individual documents are numbered in a contemporary hand. Folios 48-49, 154-155, 177, and 399-400 are detached.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.
Watermarks: Various, including watermark with Medici coat of arms.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Many documents are fragile, some have been trimmed with some loss of text at the edges, some oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Florence; copies and original documents dated 1541-1715; manuscript itself dates from 1636-ca. 1715.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1960.

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. 170 (Ms. Lea 110).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 571.

OCLC:

209591603

Access Restriction:

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