Details

Standardized Title:

Liber consuetudinum Imperii Romaniae.

Other Title:

Statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania.
Statuti dell' imperio Latino-Constantinopolitano.

Subjects:

Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204.
Feudal law -- Achaea (Principality).
Feudal law.
Latin Empire, 1204-1261 -- Statutes.
Byzantine Empire -- History.
Byzantine Empire.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Statutes, etc. of the Latin empire of Constantinople (f. 1r-37r). Also contains a section on Achaea (f. 37v-38v); a list of obscure words (f. 39v); and an index (f. 40r-43v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title from heading (f. 1r): Statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania (version on spine label: Statuti & usanz. dell' imp. di Roman.).
Title from f. [i] verso: Statuti dell'imperio Latino-Constantinopolitano. This is written in blue pencil in a later hand.
Heading on f. 1r: Questo sie libro de statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania ordinade et stabilide al tempo de li serenissimi signori conte balduini de fiandra misser Bonifacio marchese de monfera [i.e. Montferrata?]: misser Rigodandulo doxe de venexia: e molti altri baroni: In el tempo che fo conquestado lo imperio de Constantinopoli: MCIIII [sic; with small circles over the M, C and fourth I].
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 43 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-3¹⁰, 4¹², 5²; [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords written vertically, top to bottom, lower right corner of last verso of each quire.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Binding: 18th-century[?] Italian vellum over pasteboards. Endpapers have an imprinted design with gold leaf. (The binding is typical of Soranzo's books; see J. B. Mitchell, p. 130.). Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." Bodleian Lib. Record, v. VIII, no. 3, (February 1969), pp. 125-135.
Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the early 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
All of the leaves show water and mildew damage.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo (typical Soranzo binding and spine label 601).
Formerly owned by Matteo Canonici (according to J. B. Mitchell, some of Soranzo's manuscripts went to Sneyd via Canonici); sold from the Canonici collection to Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover), 1835.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 749.
Sold by C. A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951.

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. 147 (Ms. Lea 5).
Recoura, Georges, ed. Les Assizes de Romanie (Paris: H. Champion, 1930). This manuscript is not listed.
Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." Bodleian Lib. Record, v. VIII, no. 3, February 1969, pp. 125-135

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 61

Contributor:

Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761, former owner.
Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner.
Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.

OCLC:

155962933