Details

Subjects:

Law -- Italy -- Genoa -- Early works to 1800.
Law.
Genoa (Italy) -- History -- 1528-1789.
Italy -- Genoa.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with a few decreta in Italian.

Summary:

Work on the Genoan constitution of 1528.

Contents:

Part 1. 1. p.1-120: Reformationes nove Reipublica Genuensis facte 1528 (in 76 chapters.
2. p.121-191: Nove sanctiones 1528 [-1529].
3. p.193-238: Criminilis coerctio.
4. p.239-294: Sequuntur varia decreta, atque legum, a M.M.D.D. duodecim reformatoribus conditarum varias interpretationes, et declarationes facte ab Ill. Domne [dated 1528-1560].
5. p.297-315 [unnumbered]: Index capitulorum, decretorum...[for p.1-294].
Part 2. p.1-150: Nomina civium nobilium (list of family names) with Index tam albergorum, et eorum numerus, quam familiarum in dictos albergos contentarum ordine alphabetica, nec non numerus dictarum familiarum, 15 f. at end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Incipit: Quam graves nostre civitatis calamitates intulerint... (f. 3r).
Pagination: i + 250 + ii; [ii], 1-294 [xxii], 1-150, [xxx]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, [1-250]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Genoa in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1958.

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. 171 (Ms. Lea 114).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 574

OCLC:

155966690