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Title

Assise del alta corte del regno di Hierusalem et Cypro, tradutte da francese in lingua italiana, de ordine dela serenissimo ducal signoria de Venetia /

Authors

• Giovanni, di Ibelin, 13th century

Other related names

• Bustron, Florio, approximately 1500-1570, translator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00024602)
• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Luke, Harry, Sir, 1884-1969, former owner
• Rosenwald, Lessing J. 1891-1979, donor

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 492
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915810963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904769
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bn9x73t

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1533

Place

Cyprus or Venice?

Summary

Translation from the French text of Jean d'Ibelin, by Florio Bustron (cf. f. 23v). The date of this manuscript, before the printing of 1535, suggests that this may be the holograph of Florio Bustron.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 23v) and Zacour-Hirsch; abbreviated title on f. 18r.
   

Extent

349 leaves : 300 x 215 (223 x 145) mm bound to 314 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 349 + i (17th-century paper); [1-349]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); spine label with gilt title Assise o sia dell'alt. cort. di Hier. e Cipr., MS.

Script

Written in an italic or humanistic cursive script by one hand, with notes in a second hand dated 1535 (f. 23r-v, f. 349).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (armorial bookplate, motto La vertu est la seule noblesse, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction as part of the collection of the late Earl of Guilford, Part 1, by R. H. Evans (London), 15-24 December 1828, lot 403.
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his ms. 5684.
   
• Sold at auction as part of the Phillipps collection, 19 May 1913, lot 656.
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Harry Luke (pencil note, Bought by H. Luke, 1912 or 1913, front flyleaf verso).
   
• Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1957 (library bookplate, inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Courts--Jerusalem--History--Sources
• Feudal law--Jerusalem--Sources
• Law--Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom)
• Law
• Procedure (Law)--Jerusalem--History--Sources
• Procedure (Law)
• History
• Feudal law
• Courts
• Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244--Sources

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Sources

Keywords

• 16th century
• Legal
• History
• Italy
• Paper

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