Details

Subjects:

Como (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Begins with Rubrica statutoru novoru ... (detailed table of contents), [p. iii-xii], ends with a month-by-month list of local feast days and movable feasts, p. 218-222.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from p. iii, with attribution "elargita a D. Sebastiano Perto"[in a second hand] from p. i.
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 135; [xxviii], 1-222, [223-242]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corner.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Decoration: Rubricated headings and initials throughout.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th or early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 172 (Ms. Lea 118).
L. Fontana, I, pp. 377-381, especially p. 379, describes several manuscripts in private hands of which one might be identical with this manuscript.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 576

OCLC:

155966735