Details

Subjects:

Legal documents.
Local government -- Law and legislation -- Italy.
Local government -- Law and legislation.
Italy.
Rovigo (Italy : Province).
Veneto (Italy).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Laws (documents)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin, with a few short sections in Italian (p. 169-174).

Summary:

A collection of administrative laws, regulations, and guidelines for the ruler of Rovigo, Italy.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: De modo administrationis Policinii (p. 2); Explicit: Iurasti bonorem, et proficuum, dominii nostri eundo, stando, et redeundo (p. 169).
Collation: Paper, 175; [2-175]; 1⁹(+9) 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁰ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁰ 7¹⁰ 8¹⁰ 9⁸ (+1, 2); catchwords on last verso of each quire.
Pagination: Contemporary pagination in ink, 2-60, upper outer corners; modern pagination in pencil, 61-175, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 23 long lines, bounding lines ruled in lead.
Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Hieronymus Murianus.
Decoration: Red initials in left margins at the beginning of sections.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Rovigo, Italy, in 1546.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Johannes Betrus Ravenoldus (p. 175).
Formerly owned by Gabriel Michieli (p. 175).
Purchased from Ancora Gigli (Bologna, Italy).

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), pp. 38-39 (Ms. Latin 166).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1219

Contributor:

Murianus, Hieronymus, scribe.
Ravenoldus, Johannes Betrus, former owner.
Michieli, Gabriel, former owner.

OCLC:

233535632