University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 266
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1475
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 266
- Title:
- Statuti della Dogana di Livorno etc..
- Place:
- Livorno (Italy)
- Date:
- 1565-1649
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 2 volumes (107, 104 leaves) : parchment, color illustrations ; 265 x 195 mm bound to 285 x 204 mm; 300 x 214 mm bound to 325 x 220 mm
- Note:
- Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, later rebacked; Volume 1 has metal corners; Volume 2 has the remains of two clasps.
Much worm damage to the cover boards, especially in Volume 1. Many stains and smudges. Inside covers of Volume 1 have lost most of their paper pastedowns.
Title from spine of Volume 1; Zacour-Hirsch supply the title Riforma della Dogana di Livorno.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Volume 1 has many illuminated 2-line initials in red, green, yellow and blue; extensive rubrication for headings and some capitals.
The back endleaf and front and back pastedowns in Volume 2 consist of reused parchment manuscript leaves. Much of the original text is still legible.
Script: Written in a cursive humanistic script by many different hands.
Foliation: Volume 1: Parchment, ii (paper) + 107 + iii (paper); [i-iv], 1-75, [76-103]; Volume 2: Parchment, 104 + i; [i], 1-103. Volume 1: contemporary Arabic numerals, upper right recto, skips f. 76 and f. 77; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto from f. 76 to end. Volume 2: contemporary foliation, upper right recto, f. 98-103 are misnumbered and were renumbered correctly in ink in...
Origin: Written in Livorno (Italy) from 1565 (Volume 1, f.1r) to 1649 (Volume 2, f.96r).
Walter Ashburner (Florence; library stamp, on random pages throughout both volumes).
Sold by Moretti, 1952. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808803503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37940w9s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
