Assise del alta corte del regno di Hierusalem et Cypro, tradutte da francese in lingua italiana, de ordine dela ser[enissi]mo ducal signoria de Venetia /
Ms. codex. Title from caption title (f. 23v) and Zacour-Hirsch; abbreviated title on f. 18r. Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 349 + i (17th-century paper); [1-349]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Script: Written in an italic or humanistic cursive script by one hand, with notes in a second hand dated 1535 (f. 23r-v, f. 349). Binding: 17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); spine label with gilt title Assise o sia dell'alt. cort. di Hier. e Cipr., MS. Origin: Written in Cyprus or Venice, 3 January 1533 (Zacour-Hirsch). Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (armorial bookplate, motto La vertu est la seule noblesse, inside upper cover). Sold at auction as part of the collection of the late Earl of Guilford, Part 1, by R. H. Evans (London), 15-24 December 1828, lot 403. Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his ms. 5684. Sold at auction as part of the Phillipps collection, 19 May 1913, lot 656. Formerly owned by Sir Harry Luke (pencil note, Bought by H. Luke, 1912 or 1913, front flyleaf verso). Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1957 (library bookplate, inside front cover).
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