Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 248: Statutum Viterbiense The University of Pennsylvania Libraries This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Ms. codex. Title from spine. Each book has a title in the form: Statutorum Viterbij Liber Tertius (or, Quartus, etc.; cf. f. 3r, etc.). Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Codex 248 1580859 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580859 Volume containing laws and statutes of Viterbo, Italy. Second volume only, containing books 3-6. Also contains a table of contents to this volume at the end (f. 219r). Italian Statutum Viterbiense Viterbo (Italy) [i recto] Table of contents, f. i recto

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 229 leaves : 259 x 188 (240 x 167) mm. bound to 275 x 200 mm Paper, 229; [i], 1-218, [219-228]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in 24 long lines; ruled in lead. Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Contemporary half-vellum with soft boards. Boards splitting and fraying at the edges. Lower cover scraped and stained. Some leaves fraying at edges. A few smudges and stains. Binding and paper generally solid and in good condition.

Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

between 1600 and 1699 Italy Formerly owned by V. Drichiarelli[?] (signature, inside upper cover). Sold by Libreria Ulpiano (Rome), 1950. Law--Italy--Viterbo--Early works to 1800 Codices Statutes Manuscripts, Italian--17th century Manuscripts, European