Details

Subjects:

Civil law -- Switzerland.
Civil law.
Switzerland.
Criminal law -- Switzerland.
Criminal law.
Marriage law -- Switzerland.
Marriage law.
Engadine (Switzerland).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Romance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Raeto-Romance.

Summary:

Civil, criminal, and matrimonial statutes of Engadine, Switzerland, ranging from the 16th century to the 18th century, with repeated mentions of a town named Cumoen Grand. Contains alphabetical index of the statutes and list of officials, for the years 1563 to 1729.

Contents:

1. f.1r-128v: Statuts civils.
2. f.130r-163v: Statuts criminels.
3. f.165r- 170r: Statuts matrimoniels.
4. f.172r-185v: La chiarta dalla Lÿa.
5. f.187r-197v: Register sur les statuts civils, criminels, et matrimoniels.
6. f.210v-226r: [List of officials]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, vi (blank) + 226 + xiii (blank); 1-185, [186-226]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive hand.
Decoration: Ink flourishes at the ends of major sections.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Engadine (Zacour-Hirsch), around 1762 (f. 4r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate and inscription dated 1876, inside upper cover).

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. 178 (Ms. Lea 147).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1265.

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

262830929

Access Restriction:

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