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Title

Assizes of Romania

Other related names

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

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 61
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915806153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122647511
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580615

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1525

Place

Venice?

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].
   
• All of the leaves show water and mildew damage.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 283 x 193 (195 x 135) mm. bound to 290 x 196 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script.

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.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Statutes
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Legal
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Statutes, f. 1r
• fol. 37v — Section on Achaea, f. 37v
• fol. 39v — List of obscure words, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Index, f. 40r