Details

Subjects:

Bakers -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Bread -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Bread.
Bakers.
Bologna (Italy) -- History -- 17th century.
Bologna (Italy) -- History -- 18th century.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Regulations (executive records)
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Detailed table of contents (f. 2r-2v). Includes 23 printed "bandi" (dated 1630-1774), probably a complete collection of edicts and regulations concerned with the baking trade in Bologna.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 221 + i (contemporary paper); 1-221; contemporary foliation, upper right recto, including the printed proclamations which are folded; f. 3-5, 22-30, 49-54, 61-62, 80, 89-94, 97, 130, 152, 170-171, 177, 188-189, 206-207, 217-218 are blank.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Canvas, perhaps over contemporary parchment. Title page torn along outer edge due to oxidized ink. Several foldouts are badly torn.
Origin: Written in Bologna, [1630-] 1775 [-6; 1792?].

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 7 (Ms. Italian 228).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 453

OCLC:

155969565