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Title

Capitolario de le parte et ordeni del officio di magistri signori tre savii areveder le raxon dela Illustrissima Signoria per conto del cancello de le 30 e 40 per cento

Authors

• Venice (Italy)

Other related names

• Cheney, Edward, d. 1884, former owner
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 59
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914711863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545151
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1471186

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

1519-1631

Place

Venice

Summary

Capitulary containing copies of Venetian statutes pertaining to officials concerned with financial matters (Tre savii sopra la remisio di conti, f. 34r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Recto of front flyleaf contains the notation "2o" (with superscript "o").
   

Extent

64 leaves : 330 x 231 (259 x 160) mm. bound to 346 x 236 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (contemporary parchment) + 64 + i (contemporary parchment); [ii], 1-16, 16, 19-63; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Folio 18 is lacking. The original numbers appear to be out of sequence; these have been corrected in a later hand. Folios 34-60 have traces of an earlier, separate numeration.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; upper cover detached.

Decoration

Illuminated foliate border, with the motto "Iustus Dominus edilexit iusticiam" in the margins, miniature of the lion of St. Mark, three coats of arms with the initials I. R., I. D. and F. P., and the date 11 January 1519 (f. 1r); decorated border, with two illuminated initials, a scroll with the illuminated motto "nomine dissimiles non mente", three coats of arms with initials A. E., M. M. and B. B., and the date 1528 (f. 34r).

Script

Written in humanistic and cursive scripts by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Edward Cheney, (bookplate and note, inside upper cover: E.C. Venice, March 26, 1835, given to me by Rawdon Brown).
   
• Formerly owned by John Ruskin at Brantwood (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Maggs Bros., London, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Taxation--Italy--Venice--History

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European
• Statutes

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Legal
• History

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Miniature, Lion of St. Mark, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Coats of arms, f. 1r