Details

Subjects:

Merchants -- Italy.
Merchants.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Bylaws (administrative records)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin and Italian.

Summary:

A collection of statutes, regulations, and protocols of an association of businessmen and merchants in Florence, referred to as Universitas mercatorum et artificium. The statutes deal with governance, such as the elections or appointments of various administrative officials, and the collection of debts owed to the association. There is light marginal annotation throughout the text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 244; i (contemporary paper) + i (contemporary parchment) + 244 + i (contemporary parchment) + i (contemporary paper); [vi], 1-226, [227-238]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: Written in 24-26 long lines; vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead.
Script: Written in a late secretary script up to 1519 by Roberto Celio degli Oricoli, scribe (f. 70r), followed by later additions in multiple hands.
Decoration: Calligraphic initials (51v, 52r, 53v, 61r, 62v-63v, 65r, 66r-68r, 79r); decorated initials (f. 211r, 211v, 214v), some with faces (f. 1r, 22r, 79r), flower and heart pierced by an arrow (f. 225r); manicules (f. 3v, 9r, 23r, 27r, 29v, 52v, 56v, 59v, 120r, 138r, 145r, 162r, 181r, 201r).
Watermarks: Similar to Briquet Ancre 433 (Laibach, 1525) throughout.
Binding: Contemporary half leather with wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Florence between 1519 (f. 70r) and 1547 (f. 225r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1959.

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. 31 (Ms. Latin 136).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1253.

Contributor:

Oricoli, Roberto Celio degli, scribe.

OCLC:

244842662

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