Details

Subjects:

Trials -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Civil law -- Italy.
Civil law.
Trials.
Italy.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian, in the Venetian dialect.

Summary:

Short manual on civil law and civil procedure, probably written by a Venetian lawyer or judge, concerning trials held at the Corte del Proprio (referred to as zudicadi or zudega de proprio in the text), a civil court mostly responsible for dowry, succession, and inheritance law and litigation between brothers (or other close relatives), especially for the execution of wills. The manual, probably based on a much larger work, contains informal notes and instructions, written in Venetian dialect, to help professionals deal with the most common occurrences in trials at the Corte del Proprio. In some cases, there are also suggestions on how to deal with certain situations without going to court, using a kind of mediation that allowed for a quicker resolution of the case.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Spine title.
Foliation: Paper, ii (paper) + 56 + i (paper); 1-47, [48], 49-50, [51-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written 18 long lines in a text block outlined in ink. Marginalia and other miscellaneous notations are also present.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Ornamental border with geometric decoration in ink (f. 1r).
Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch) with marbled boards and gilt on spine.
Origin: Probably written in Venice between 1500 and 1550.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, vt2/4/18 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly in the collection of Giuseppe Martini (bookplate, front flyleaf recto).

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. 221 (Ms. Lea 372).

Cited as:

Causae juridicae (Ms. Codex 1470). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

317964525

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