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Title

Tractatus de maleficiis (Treatise on evil deeds)

Authors

• Gambiglioni, Angelo, active 15th century (http://viaf.org/viaf/100384396/)

Other related names

• Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1852-1929, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/67264132)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

LC 14 23
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1582842
• deRicci: 1

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

The principal text in this legal compendium is Angelo de Gambiglioni's Tractatus de Malificiis (fols. 1r-102v). Other authors represented include Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Iacobus Butrigarius, and Iacobus de Arena. In all, forty-four texts are present though most are only excerpts. The colophon on fol. 103r informs us that the scribe for the first part of this volume was Johannes Batista de Aversa who wrote it for Franciscus de Berardis de Callio, judge and podestà of "Roche contracte", and that is was completed on February 27 1460. The paper on which it is written bears a Venetian watermark. There are a number of changes in the scribal hand in the remaining part of the manuscript, and the texts are glossed throughout. Some of these texts are written in the hand of Franciscus de Berardis, who refers to himself as "Judex Civitatis Tuderti", placing this manuscript in the Umbrian town of Todi. In addition to the historiated initial showing Angelo de Gambiglioni and full border on fol. 1r, there are thirty-one marginal drawings in ink illustrating the text of the Tractatus de Maleficiis. These show various crimes (both deliberate and accidental) being committed, from sword-fights and murders to hunting accidents and a hanging, and do not appear to be the work of a professional artist. Along with judge Franciscus's own handwriting, these vignettes vividly evoke this manuscript's active working life in a fifteenth-century Italian law court.

Notes

• Colophon tells that the scribe for fols. 1r-103r was Johannes Batista de Aversa who wrote the book for Franciscus de Berardis de Callio, judge and podestá of "Roche contracte" and that he completed this portion of the manuscript on 27 February 1460
   
• Some loose leaves
   
• At least seven scribal hands
   

Watermark

Watermark of two crossed arrows (Briquet 6269)

Extent

Iv+200+i; 342 x 225 mm bound to 345x 244 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; early foliation in ink beginning at 11 on fol. 1r, lower right recto

Collation

1-20 (10)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords at ten-folio intervals from 10v-130v, horizontal catchword at 140v

Binding

Eighteenth-century half-calf binding, paste paper covers; stamped in gold on spine "DE GAMBIL. CRIMINAL ET MISC. LEG. CODEX A I 1460"

Layout

One column of forty-seven lines, lead point ruling; written area: 210 x 113 mm

Decoration

One historiated initial (fol. 1r), initials in red, blue, and black with penwork decoration throughout, thirty-one marginal drawings in ink between fol. 3v and fol. 34r, occasional manicules throughout

Script

Gothic--rotunda (ff. 1r-103r)

Gothic--cursiva (fols. 103v-200r)

Colophon

Fol. 103r: "Deo laus scripta et finita mcccclx die xxvii Februarii Johannes baptista de auersa scripsit" [then in a cursive hand and in red ink]: "tempore pape pii secundi" and "Ad instantiam egregii juris peritissimi viri domine Francisci de Berardis de Callio judicim ad potentatis terre Roche contracte qui dominus Franciscus ualeat semper in Christo Amen"

Provenance

• The colophon, fol. 103r, tells book was made for Franciscus de Berardis de Callio in 1460; coat of arms with monogram F.R., f. 1r.; Earl of Guilford (1830); Sir Thomas Phillipps ("5382Ph" in pencil on inside front cover and "Phillipps ms no. 5382" in pencil on fol. iii recto); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia (1913); given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; "G 206" on inside of front cover; handwritten note about the text signed John Marshall Gest and dated February 19, 1916 attached to fol. i recto; type-written description of manuscript on stationery with Maggs Bros. letterhead, addressed to Hampton L. Carson, attached to second flyleaf, dated 21 July 1913
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2015, no. 1.
• Thomas M. Izbicki and Patrick Lally, "Texts Attributed to Bartolus de Saxoferrato in North American Manuscript Collections," Manuscripta 35, 2 (1991), pp. 153-154.
• Domenico and Paola Maffei, Angelo Gambiglioni: Giureconsulto Aretino del quattrocento, le vita, i libri, le opera (Rome: Fondazione Sergio mochi onory per la storia del Diritto Italiano, 1994), p. 61.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Italian
• Watermark
• Paper
• Manicules
• Heraldry
• Annotated
• Italy
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Insert ii recto — Type-written description of the manuscript from Maggs Bros. addressed to Hampton Carson, dated 21 July 1913
• fol. 1r — Angelo de Gambiglioni, Tractatus de Maleficiis; incipit: Nature munera animo repetenti uerissimum illud … [fol. 1r]; explicit: Et sic non est opus appellations fiende per heredes. [fol. 102v]
• fol. 102v — Casus obiectionum sententiae; incipit: De modis quibus post obici(?) simile(?) [fol. 102v]; explicit: Et sic hiis xxiiii monis post obici simile(?) [fol. 103r]
• fol. 103v — Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Varia, including Repetitio l. Quod Nerva (fols. 104r-109r), Tractatus de repraesaliis (fols. 109v-122r), Repetitio l. Quominus (fols. 122v-127r)
• fol. 127v — Iacobus Butrigarius, Formae libellorum
• fol. 135r — Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Varia, including Repetitio l. Omnes populi (fols. 135r-150r), Lectura et ne potentiores (fols. 150r-v)
• fol. 151r — Iacobus de Arena, Tractatus de excussionibus pignorum cum additione Iacobi Butrigarii; incipit: Quia tractatus excussionis frequans est [fol. 151r]; explicit: ? [fol. 153v]
• fol. 153v — Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Varia, including Repetitio auth. At qui semel (fols. 153v-157r), Lectura l. Si patruus (fols. 157r-158r), Lectura auth. Sed si quis ab aliquo (fols. 158r-159r), Excerptum (fol. 159r)
• fol. 159v — Angelus de Ubaldis, Varia, including Repetitio l. Si vacantia (fols. 159v-180v), Tractatus de sindicatu officialum (fols. 181r-185r)
• fol. 185r — Baldus de Ubaldis, Tractatus de captura facta debitoris; incipit: Queritur an captus per uno debito possit [fol. 185r]; explicit: ...ut in curia Romana et contrahentes de fo. competen lv vi Baldus di perusio. finis xtm. [fol. 185v]
• fol. 185v — Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Varia, including Quaestio X (fols. 185v-187v), Lectura l. Levia (fols. 185v-188v), Lectura l. Capitalium (fols. 188v-189r), Consilium (fols. 189r-v), Lectura l. Si is qui (fols. 190r-v), Lectura l. Euis qui (fols. 190v-191r), Lectura l. Marito (fols. 191r-v), Lectura l. Capite quinto (fols. 191v-192r)
• fol. 192r — Various authors, notae & consilia, including Ludovico Pontanus, Singularia [excerpt] (fol. 192r); Baldas de Ubaldis, Consilia (fols. 192r-v); [uncertain author], Excerptum (fol. 192v); Ludovico Pontanus, Singularia [excerpt] (fol. 192v); Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilia (fol. 193r); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Lectura l. Paulus (fol. 193v-194v); Ludovico Pontanus, Singularia [excerpt] (fol. 194v); Baldas de Ubaldis, Consilium (fol. 195r); [uncertain author], Consilium (fol. 195r-v); Petrus de Amandola, Consilium (fol. 195v-196r); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Consilium (fol. 196r); Manaldus de Magalottis de Urbeveteri, Consilium cum additione (fols. 196r-v); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Consilia (fols. 196v-197r); Bonaccursius de Saxoferrato, Consilium (fols. 197r-v); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Consilia (fols. 197v-198r); Iacobus de Belviso, Consilium (fols. 198r-v); Baldus de Ubaldis, Lectura l. Ordinarii [excerpt] (fols. 198v-199r); Baldus de Ubaldis, Lectura l. Actor [excerpt] (fol. 199r); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Lectura l. Divis Traianus (fol. 199v); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Consilium (fols. 199v-200r)

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations in pencil
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson
• Insert i recto — Notation in ink by John Marshall Gest, dated 19 February 1916
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Notation in Latin, in ink (sixteenth century?)
• fol. 1r — Historiated initial N, author portrait of Angelo Gambiglioni
• fol. 1r — Coat of arms of Franciscus de Berardis de Callio(?), supported by putti
• fol. 1r — Full all'antica border with putti and stag
• fol. 3v — Marginal drawing in ink, two men fighting with swords before a seated judge
• fol. 8r — Marginal drawing in ink, a tower
• fol. 10r — Marginal drawing in ink, a man with a scroll before a lawyer and a seated judge
• fol. 10v — Marginal drawing in ink, executioner
• fol. 11r — Marginal drawing in ink, cutting out a criminal's tongue
• fol. 11v — Marginal drawing in ink, woman with scroll
• fol. 13r — Marginal drawing in ink, two men with scrolls before a seated judge
• fol. 15v — Marginal drawing in ink, dead man in bed with scroll
• fol. 17v — Marginal drawing, man with chickens before a seated judge
• fol. 19v — Marginal drawing in ink, men fighting with swords between two fortified buildings
• fol. 20r — Marginal drawing in ink, a man is stabbed in front of a fortified building
• fol. 20v — Marginal drawing in ink, accidental shooting by a hunter
• fol. 20v — Marginal drawing in ink, man accidentally trampled by horse
• fol. 21r — Marginal drawing in ink, a man being led before a seated judge
• fol. 22v — Marginal drawing in ink, men fighting with spears
• fol. 23r — Marginal drawing in ink, two men plot burglary
• fol. 23v — Marginal drawing in ink, a man and a soldier
• fol. 24r — Marginal drawing in ink, three soldiers murder a man
• fol. 25r — Marginal drawing in ink, two men swear an oath over a sword
• fol. 25v — Marginal drawing in ink, two men swear an oath over a sword
• fol. 27r — Marginal drawing in ink, two men converse and a soldier
• fol. 28v — Marginal drawing in ink, a woman and a child leave a building
• fol. 29r — Marginal drawing in ink, a man with a sword leaves a building with a dead man inside
• fol. 29v — Marginal drawing in ink, a boy with a spear and fortified building
• fol. 30r — Marginal drawing in ink, two soldiers and a man who has just clubbed another man to death
• fol. 30v — Marginal drawing in ink, five men, four of them armed
• fol. 31r — Marginal drawing in ink, a church
• fol. 31v — Marginal drawing in ink, a robed man before a seated judge
• fol. 32v — Marginal drawing in ink, two men, one in robes, before a seated judge who points to five coins(?)
• fol. 33v — Marginal drawing in ink, a man with a sword outside a prison(?)
• fol. 34r — Marginal drawing in ink, a criminal is hanged before a seated judge
• fol. 122v — Zoomorphic initial Q