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Title

Statuta sive capitula loci Castini

Authors

• Castino (Italy)

Call number

Ms. Codex 50
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914739263503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167214
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1473926

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1471

Place

Castino

Summary

Statutes of Castino in Italy (f. 1r-21r). Includes a table of contents (tabula suprascriptorum capitulorum) on f. 21r-22v. Folio 23 contains additions dated 1539 and 1540.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from inscription in later hand f. [i] recto and from upper cover.
   

Extent

26 leaves : 244 x 177 (152 x 112) mm. bound to 245 x 185 mm

Collation

Parchment and paper, 26; [iii], 1¹⁰, 2⁸, 3⁶(-2), [iii]; i (11th- or 12th-century parchment) + ii (contemporary paper) + 23 + ii (contemporary paper) + i (11th- or 12th-century parchment); 1-18, 20-23; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

15th-century Italian wooden boards, with two leather straps connecting front to back, one detached. Pastedowns have been loosened (they were from the 11th/12th-century breviary fragment used to wrap the text block). The text block is completely detached from this cover.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

6-line initial in purple, green, pink, and blue (f. 1r); coat of arms in green, blue, pink, purple and white (f. 1r); extensive use of red for headings, initials, capitals, and paragraph marks.

Script

Written in a semi-humanistic script, with comments in several different hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Giuseppe Combetti of Turin (Zacour-Hirsch; Fontana).
   
• Formerly owned by the Lib. Antiquaria Bourlot, Turin (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church.--Breviary--Specimens

Genres

• Codices
• Statutes
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Legal

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Coat of arms, f. 1r
• fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 8v
• fol. 10v — Decorated descender, Face, f. 10v