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

Title

Statutes

Authors

• Università de' mercanti (Florence, Italy)

Other related names

• Oricoli, Roberto Celio degli, scribe

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1253
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943862103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244840329
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4386210

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Italian

Origin

Date

1519-1547

Place

Florence

Summary

A collection of statutes, regulations, and protocols of an association of businessmen and merchants in Florence, referred to as Universitas mercatorum et artificium. The statutes deal with governance, such as the elections or appointments of various administrative officials, and the collection of debts owed to the association. There is light marginal annotation throughout the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Ancre 433 (Laibach, 1525) throughout.

Extent

244 leaves : 280 x 212 (221 x 147 / 195 x 132) mm. bound to 292 x 222 mm

Foliation

Paper, 244; i (contemporary paper) + i (contemporary parchment) + 244 + i (contemporary parchment) + i (contemporary paper); [vi], 1-226, [227-238]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half leather with wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 24-26 long lines; vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead.

Decoration

Calligraphic initials (51v, 52r, 53v, 61r, 62v-63v, 65r, 66r-68r, 79r); decorated initials (f. 211r, 211v, 214v), some with faces (f. 1r, 22r, 79r), flower and heart pierced by an arrow (f. 225r); manicules (f. 3v, 9r, 23r, 27r, 29v, 52v, 56v, 59v, 120r, 138r, 145r, 162r, 181r, 201r).

Script

Written in a late secretary script up to 1519 by Roberto Celio degli Oricoli, scribe (f. 70r), followed by later additions in multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Merchants--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• By-laws (administrative records)
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 1r
• fol. 3v — Manicule, f. 3v
• fol. 9r — Manicule, f. 9r
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 22r
• fol. 23r — Manicule, f. 23r
• fol. 27r — Manicule, f. 27r
• fol. 29v — Manicule, f. 29v
• fol. 52v — Manicule, f. 52v
• fol. 56v — Manicule, f. 56v
• fol. 59v — Manicule, f. 59v
• fol. 79r — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 79r
• fol. 83v — Manicule, f. 83v
• fol. 120r — Manicule, f. 120r
• fol. 138r — Manicule, f. 138r
• fol. 145r — Manicule, f. 145r
• fol. 159v — Manicule, f. 159v
• fol. 162r — Manicule, f. 162r
• fol. 173r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 173r
• fol. 181r — Manicule, f. 181r