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Title

Authors

• Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609

Other related names

• Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949857513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213494296
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4985751

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

after 1593

Place

Florence?, Italy

Summary

Copy of an edict inviting foreign merchants, especially Jews, to settle in Livorno and Pisa, and defining their rights and privileges. The original edict was issued from the ducal palace in Florence, dated 10 June 1593, and consists of 44 clauses. The rights and privileges included amnesty for offenses committed previously, freedom from debts incurred elsewhere, free safe conduct in Livorno, the right to conduct business throughout Tuscany, the same rights and privileges in conducting foreign trade as others in Tuscany, protection from extraordinary levies beyond the usual taxes, exemption from the regulations on Jews living in Florence and Siena, the right of Jews to build and maintain a synagogue and cemetery, the right to observe Jewish holidays, ownership of printed books or manuscripts reviewed by the Inquisition, ownership of real property, freedom to practice for Jewish doctors, permission to employ Christian servants, the right of heads of households to bear arms, and freedom from wearing an insignia signifying Jewish identity.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Medici arms in ink (f. 1r); floral design in ink at end of text (f. 12r); inhabited 3-line initial in ink (f. 1v); simple 2-line initial in ink at the beginning of each clause.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prince Piero Ginori Conti, ms. 10375 (bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 19 May 2000, lot 229, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Arthur Kiron, Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections, Penn Libraries, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--Italy--Livorno--History
• Jews--Italy--Pisa--History

Genres

• Codices
• Decrees
• Manuscripts, Italian
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• History
• Jewish

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Drawing, Coat of arms, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 1v
• fol. 12r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 12r