Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Works on civil law

Authors

• Cattani, Alberto
• Crassis, Joannes de

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1231
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943519123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234074663
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4351912

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1466-1468

Place

Siena and Pavia

Summary

About 20 pages are missing from the beginning of the book. The first section consists of lectures delivered in Siena in 1467-1468 (Zacour-Hirsch). The second is a series of legal clauses. The third is a treatise on civil law, delivered as a series of lectures in Pavia, 1466. This section ends with a cryptic signature (f. 148v). The fourth begins with a short poem, followed by a summary of Cattani's relationship with a woman named Violante. The last three sections each begin with their own table of contents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Colonne 4412 (Sienne, 1465) (for example, f. 89).

Extent

227 leaves : 335 x 245 (262 x 125)mm. bound to 355 x 250 mm

Foliation

Paper, 227; [1-227]; some non-sequential contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half leather over wooden boards, upper cover largely missing. Lower cover has remnants of two metal clasps, each with the image of a lamb and flag topped with a cross.

Layout

Written in 40-48 long lines.

Decoration

Sketch of a face with initial A (f. 24r); manicules (f. 41r, 42r, 61r, 62v).

Script

Written in multiple Gothic cursive hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Marques de Barbera y de la Manresa (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Civil law--Italy
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Poems
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Lecture notes
• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry
• Legal

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Jus civile, f. 1r
• fol. 90v — Table of contents for Clausularum non parum utilis, f. 90v
• fol. 91r — Clausularum non parum utilis, f. 91r
• fol. 118v — Table of contents for Tractatus, f. 118v
• fol. 119r — Tractatus, f. 119r
• fol. 149r — Violantes, f. 149r
• fol. 149r — Table of contents for Violantes, f. 149r

Decorations

• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
• fol. 14v — Manicule, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Manicule, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Manicule, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Manicule, f. 16r
• fol. 18r — Manicule, f. 18r
• fol. 20v — Manicule, f. 20v
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial, Initial A, Face, f. 24r
• fol. 33r — Manicule, f. 33r
• fol. 36v — Manicule, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Manicule, f. 37v
• fol. 41r — Manicule, f. 41r
• fol. 42r — Manicule, f. 42r
• fol. 45v — Manicule, f. 45v
• fol. 51r — Manicule, f. 51r
• fol. 51r — Drawing, Face, f. 51r
• fol. 61r — Manicule, f. 61r
• fol. 61v — Manicule, f. 61v
• fol. 62r — Manicule, f. 62r
• fol. 83r — Manicule, f. 83r
• fol. 86v — Manicule, f. 86v
• fol. 97v — Manicule, f. 97v
• fol. 109v — Manicule, f. 109v
• fol. 156r — Manicule, f. 156r
• fol. 185r — Manicule, f. 185r
• fol. 193v — Manicule, f. 193v
• fol. 200v — Manicule, f. 200v
• fol. 219v — Manicule, f. 219v