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[Edicts concerning Jews in Mantua].

Author/Creator:
Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1562-1612.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
20 leaves : paper ; 355 x 245 (278-282 x 195-205) mm bound to 355 x 255 mm
Production:
Mantua, 1594.
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Jews -- Italy -- Mantua -- History.
Jews.
History.
Mantua (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.
Italy -- Mantua.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Decrees.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian, with some Latin.
Summary:
Official copy of an edict issued by Vincenzo Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, in 1594 renewing privileges and amnesties of the Jews of Mantua, who were allowed to work as bankers, merchants, and butchers. The contemporary edict is preceded by copies of 2 earlier renewals, the first issued by Guglielmo Gonzaga, Vincenzo's father and the previous duke, in Goito in 1587, and the second issued by Vincenzo in 1590. All 3 copies, perhaps written by a chancery scribe, are signed by ducal chancellor Matthaeus Gentilis.
Contents:
1. f.1r-5r: [Edict, 4 April 1587] / Gulielmus.
2. f.6r-8v: [Edict, 25 October 1590] / Vincenzo.
3. f.9r-13v: [Edict, 10 November 1594] / Vincentius.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i + 20 + i; 1²⁰; 1-13, [14-20] (14-20 blank); contemporary foliation in arabic numerals in ink and modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on every page, lower right corner. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines, with initials and section numbers in the left margin.
Script: Written in an Italian cancellaresca script, signed in a different hand by Matthaeus Gentilis, ducal chancellor (f. 4v-5r, 8r-8v, 13v).
Watermarks: Crown with countermark of IBC with 3-leaf clover above the B; flyleaves have 3 crescents above the word MEZZANA with countermark of the letter W topped with decorative flourishes.
Binding: Marbled paper over pasteboard.
Origin: Written in Mantua, dated 10 Nov. 1594 (f. 5r, 8v, 13v).
Penn Provenance:
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 Dec. 1999, lot 24, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Cited in:
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 153 (LJS 346).
Cited as:
UPenn Oversize LJS 346
Contributor:
Gonzaga, Guglielmo, 1538-1587.
Gentilis, Matthaeus.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
711690374