Details

Other Title:

Statuti delle gabelle di Barga dell'anno 1346

Subjects:

Taxation -- Italy -- Barga.
Taxation.
Barga (Italy) -- History.
Tuscany (Italy) -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Tuscany (Italy) -- Economic conditions -- Early works to 1800.
Italy -- Barga.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Laws (documents)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Regulations in 49 chapters concerning the amount of tax (gabella or gabelle) and the conditions under which duty must be paid on internal and external trade in cloth of various kinds and from various sources; hides; various objects made of iron, steel, tin, lead, or brass; wood, worked or not, for various designated purposes; food including cheese, fish, oil, and wine; vessels of glass and clay; building materials such as plaster, tiles, and marble; domestic animals including horses; servants; and grain and other agricultural products, including herbs and spices. Also includes definitions of weights and measures and regulations on retail sale of wine, bread, and oil. The end of the text is missing (after f. 26v). The first and last leaves contain a variety of later additions, including many pen trials and rough sketches in ink (f. 1-2, 27-28). The original was written by the notary Neri ser Petri de Monte Alcino (f. 3r), but this manuscript is written by several hands.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 3r).
Collation: Paper, 28 + i (16th-century?); 1²⁸; [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto (contemporary foliation in roman numerals in ink, v-xxv, upper right recto, on f. 7-27). References in this record are to modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 30-40 long lines; vertical margins ruled by creasing, with the creases cracking on many leaves.
Script: Written in a cursive Gothic script, by multiple hands.
Decoration: Ink sketches of human figures and a monster (f. 27r) and a face in an initial M (f. 28v).
Binding: 16th-century vellum over pasteboards with remains of 2 pairs of tawed leather ties; title Statuti delle gabelle di Barga dell'anno 1346 written on spine in ink.
Origin: Written in Barga, after the statutes dated 26 Feb. 1346 (f. 3r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 210, 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. 148 (LJS 231).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 231

Contributor:

Feltrinelli, Giannalisa, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

720389646

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page