University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 266
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1475
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 266
- Title:
- Statuti della Dogana di Livorno etc.
- Place:
- Livorno (Italy)
- Date:
- 1565-1649
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- parchment, color illustrations
- 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:
- Ms. codex.
Title from spine of Volume 1; Zacour-Hirsch supply the title Riforma della Dogana di Livorno.
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...
Script: Written in a cursive humanistic script by many different hands.
Decoration: Volume 1 has many illuminated 2-line initials in red, green, yellow and blue; extensive rubrication for headings and some capitals.
Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, later rebacked; Volume 1 has metal corners; Volume 2 has the remains of two clasps.
Origin: Written in Livorno (Italy) from 1565 (Volume 1, f.1r) to 1649 (Volume 2, f.96r).
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.
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.
Walter Ashburner (Florence; library stamp, on random pages throughout both volumes).
Sold by Moretti, 1952. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915808803503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p37940w9s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
