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

Title

Collection of laws for the use of the Podestà di Rovigo

Other related names

• Murianus, Hieronymus, scribe
• Ravenoldus, Johannes Betrus, former owner
• Michieli, Gabriel, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1219
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943245923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233535629
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4324592

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with a few short sections in Italian (p. 169-174)

Origin

Date

1546

Place

Rovigo, Italy

Summary

A collection of administrative laws, regulations, and guidelines for the ruler of Rovigo, Italy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: De modo administrationis Policinii (p. 2); Explicit: Iurasti bonorem, et proficuum, dominii nostri eundo, stando, et redeundo (p. 169).
   

Extent

87 leaves : 235 x 168 (116 x 101) mm. bound to 235 x 168 mm

Foliation

Contemporary pagination in ink, 2-60, upper outer corners; modern pagination in pencil, 61-175, upper outer corners.

Collation

Paper, 175; [2-175]; 1⁹(+9) 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁰ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁰ 7¹⁰ 8¹⁰ 9⁸ (+1, 2); catchwords on last verso of each quire.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 23 long lines, bounding lines ruled in lead.

Decoration

Red initials in left margins at the beginning of sections.

Script

Written in an italic script in the hand of Hieronymus Murianus.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Johannes Betrus Ravenoldus (p. 175).
   
• Formerly owned by Gabriel Michieli (p. 175).
   
• Purchased from Ancora Gigli (Bologna, Italy).
   

Subjects topical

• Legal documents
• Local government--Law and legislation--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Laws (documents)
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

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