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Statutum habelle communu[m] [et] t[er]rar[um] Barge

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Title: Statutum habelle communu[m] [et] t[er]rar[um] Barge
Alt Title: Statuti delle gabelle di Barga dell'anno 1346
Date: 1346
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Laws (documents), Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Regulations in 49 chapters concerning the amount of tax (gabella or gabelle) and the conditions under which duty must be paid on internal and external trade in cloth of various kinds and from various sources; hides; various objects made of iron, steel, tin, lead, or brass; wood, worked or not, for various designated purposes; food including cheese, fish, oil, and wine; vessels of glass and clay; building materials such as plaster, tiles, and marble; domestic animals including horses; servants; and grain and other agricultural products, including herbs and spices. Also includes definitions of weights and measures and regulations on retail sale of wine, bread, and oil. The end of the text is missing (after f. 26v). The first and last leaves contain a variety of later additions, including many pen trials and rough sketches in ink (f. 1-2, 27-28). The original was written by the notary Neri ser Petri de Monte Alcino (f. 3r), but this manuscript is written by several hands.
Extent: 28 leaves : paper ; 297 x 208 (221 x 105) mm bound to 298 x 212 mm
Language: Latin
Note: Ms. codex., Title from incipit (f. 3r)., Collation: Paper, 28 + i (16th-century?); 1²⁸; [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto (contemporary foliation in roman numerals in ink, v-xxv, upper right recto, on f. 7-27). References in this record are to modern foliation., Layout: Written in 30-40 long lines; vertical margins ruled by creasing, with the creases cracking on many leaves., Script: Written in a cursive Gothic script, by multiple hands., Decoration: Ink sketches of human figures and a monster (f. 27r) and a face in an initial M (f. 28v)., Binding: 16th-century vellum over pasteboards with remains of 2 pairs of tawed leather ties; title Statuti delle gabelle di Barga dell'anno 1346 written on spine in ink., Origin: Written in Barga, after the statutes dated 26 Feb. 1346 (f. 3r)., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Latin.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025253, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cq0n, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs231.html
Subject: Taxation -- Italy -- Barga, Taxation
Geographic Subject: Barga (Italy) -- History, Tuscany (Italy) -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800, Tuscany (Italy) -- Economic conditions -- Early works to 1800, Italy -- Barga
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 231
Provenance: Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover)., Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 210, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Feltrinelli, Giannalisa, former owner., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9949875283503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3cq0n/manifest

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