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Title

Statutum habelle communum et terrarum Barge

Other related names

• Feltrinelli, Giannalisa, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 231
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949875283503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122365671
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4987528

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1346

Place

Barga

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).
   

Extent

28 leaves : 297 x 208 (221 x 105) mm. bound to 298 x 212 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 30-40 long lines; vertical margins ruled by creasing, with the creases cracking on many leaves.

Decoration

Ink sketches of human figures and a monster (f. 27r) and a face in an initial M (f. 28v).

Script

Written in a cursive Gothic script, by multiple hands.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Taxation--Italy--Barga

Genres

• Codices
• Laws (documents)
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Legal
• Italian
• Document
• Paper
• Italy

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 27r — Drawing, Human figures with monster and pointing hand, f. 27r
• fol. 28v — Decorated initial, Initial M, Face, f. 28v