Details

Subjects:

Civil law -- Italy.
Civil law.
Italy.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lecture notes.
Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Jurist and later a professor at Turin and Padua.

Summary:

About 20 pages are missing from the beginning of the book. The first section consists of lectures delivered in Siena in 1467-1468 (Zacour-Hirsch). The second is a series of legal clauses. The third is a treatise on civil law, delivered as a series of lectures in Pavia, 1466. This section ends with a cryptic signature (f. 148v). The fourth begins with a short poem, followed by a summary of Cattani's relationship with a woman named Violante. The last three sections each begin with their own table of contents.

Contents:

1. f.1r-89v: Jus civile / Alberto Cattani.
2. f.91r-117v: Clausularum non parum utilis / [Alberto Cattani]
3. f.118v-148v: Tractatus / I[ohannes] Grassus.
4. f.149r-226v: Violantes / Alberto Cattani.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 227; [1-227]; some non-sequential contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 40-48 long lines.
Script: Written in multiple Gothic cursive hands.
Decoration: Sketch of a face with initial A (f. 24r); manicules (f. 41r, 42r, 61r, 62v).
Binding: Contemporary half leather over wooden boards, upper cover largely missing. Lower cover has remnants of two metal clasps, each with the image of a lamb and flag topped with a cross.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Colonne 4412 (Sienne, 1465) (for example, f. 89).
Origin: Written in Siena and Pavia, 1466-1468 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marques de Barbera y de la Manresa (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1960.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 34 (Ms. Latin 146).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1231.

Contributor:

Crassis, Joannes de.

OCLC:

234074667

Access Restriction:

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