University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 269

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DS ID:

DS1476

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 269

Title:

Capitula Mirabelle.

Place:

Naples and Mirabella

Naples TGN

Date:

1551-1731.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with a few items in Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 69 leaves : parchment and paper ; 285 x 208 mm bound to 291 x 211 mm

Note:

Origin: Written in Naples and Mirabella in 1551, with additions made through the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Title from former 17th-century cover (now pasted inside front cover of modern binding).
Foliation: Parchment and paper, ii (modern paper) + 4 (paper) + 54 (parchment) + 6 (paper) + 2 (parchment) + 3 (paper) + ii (modern paper); [iv], 1-50, [51-65]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a variety of humanistic and cursive scripts by many different hands.
Binding: Modern quarter leather with gilt title Mirabella Statutes. Previously bound in 17th-century leather; former upper cover pasted to inside upper cover of current binding; has stamped and gilded design of a royal coat of arms and the date 1647. Folios 59-60 are completely loose from the binding.
Sold by J. Rosenthal, 1952.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, European

statutes

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Italy--Mirabella Eclano

Italy

Law

Early works

Politics and government

Giundatio, Fabritio, baron of Mirabella

Naples (Kingdom)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808823503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3mw28f6b/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania