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

Title

Causae juridicae

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1470
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944770323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317964524
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4477032

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, in the Venetian dialect

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1550

Place

Venice?

Summary

Short manual on civil law and civil procedure, probably written by a Venetian lawyer or judge, concerning trials held at the Corte del Proprio (referred to as zudicadi or zudega de proprio in the text), a civil court mostly responsible for dowry, succession, and inheritance law and litigation between brothers (or other close relatives), especially for the execution of wills. The manual, probably based on a much larger work, contains informal notes and instructions, written in Venetian dialect, to help professionals deal with the most common occurrences in trials at the Corte del Proprio. In some cases, there are also suggestions on how to deal with certain situations without going to court, using a kind of mediation that allowed for a quicker resolution of the case.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Spine title.
   

Extent

56 leaves : 157 x 108 (114 x 77 mm.), bound to 162 x 115 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (paper) + 56 + i (paper); 1-47, [48], 49-50, [51-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch) with marbled boards and gilt on spine.

Layout

Written 18 long lines in a text block outlined in ink. Marginalia and other miscellaneous notations are also present.

Decoration

Ornamental border with geometric decoration in ink (f. 1r).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly in the collection of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, vt2/4/18 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly in the collection of Giuseppi Martini (bookplate, front flyleaf recto).
   

Subjects topical

• Trials--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Civil law--Italy
• Inheritance and succession--Italy

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r