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

Title

Statuta terrae Soncini

Authors

• Soncino (Italy)

Call number

Ms. Codex 51
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1473927
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1473927

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Soncino

Summary

Statutes of Soncino, Italy. Also includes a register of the 655 chapter headings (f. i verso).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   
• This manuscript is not listed in L. Fontana, Bibliografia degli statuti dei comuni dell'Italia superiore (Turin, 1907).
   

Extent

155 leaves : 203 x 149 (184 x 128) mm. bound to 206 x 151 mm

Foliation

Paper, 155; 1⁸, 2-13¹², 14⁴( -1); [viii], 13-159; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Gatherings signed with contemporary arabic numerals, 2-13, upper left corner, first recto of each gathering. Catchwords at the bottom right of each verso. First gathering of text after table of contents is missing, so first extant quire is numbered 2.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century Italian cardboard wrapper with woodblock-printed botanical pattern. Wrapper is not attached to book block. Remains of original paper upper cover; lower cover and majority of spine lacking. Sewing of some quires is loose, particularly the last few leaves which are nearly detached and are torn, faded and extremely difficult to read.

Script

Written in a cursive secretarial script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Siba, Palazzo di Breza, Milan (stamp, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Statutes--Italy--Soncino

Genres

• Codices
• Statutes
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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