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Title

Diversorum statutorum, ac legum particularum civitatis, comitatus, ac districtus florentie

Call number

Ms. Codex 571
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486526
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486526

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

1636-1715

Place

Florence

Summary

Privileges, statutes, and laws of Florence and Tuscany covering a wide range of topics: territorial divisions, customs, litigation, ecclesiastical exemption, the conduct of public officials, regulation of trade, inheritance, Jews, etc. Collection of 137 documents, both copies and originals, dated 1541-1715, most dated ca. 1650-1700, not in chronological order, each document is numbered in a contemporary hand; no. 114 (1 May 1700) and no. 136 (1714) are printed. Documents are indexed (f. i recto-viii verso).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading for index (f. i recto). Title on spine: Rubrica diversorum statutorum, with number B 262.
   
• Printed document no. 136 (in Latin, 4 f.) is titled Communis Lamporecchij pecuniaria sive restitutionis in integrum; is headed with a genealogy of Luca Antonius; is signed Antonius Philippus Medices; and dated 1714.
   

Watermark

Various, including watermark with Medici coat of arms.

Extent

408 leaves : 287 x 201 mm. bound to 300 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 408 + i (contemporary paper); [1-400]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Individual documents are numbered in a contemporary hand. Folios 48-49, 154-155, 177, and 399-400 are detached.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Many documents are fragile, some have been trimmed with some loss of text at the edges, some oxidation of ink.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Law--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Genealogies
• Letters
• Statutes
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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