University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 55

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DS ID:

DS1547

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 55

Title:

Statuta communitatis Viglani edita per homines et communitatem dicti loci Viglani, diocesis et capitaneatus Astensis.

Author:

Vigliano d'Asti (Italy)

Vigliano d'Asti WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Ansermus, Robusti

Robusti Ansermus WIKIDATA

Place:

Vigliano, Italy

Vigliano TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves : parchment ; 245 x 178 (174 x 134) mm bound to 248 x 184 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in ink.
The text block is in good condition, but it is pulling away from the cover. The leather of the spine is badly deteriorated and almost entirely split apart.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, i (11th-century parchment) + 18 + i (11th-century parchment); 1², 2¹², 3⁴; [ii] 1-14, [15-16]; contemporary foliation in Roman numerals, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 1-6 marked a-f (except f. 4, which is a later replacement) and folio 13 marked g, lower right recto.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Decoration: Red 3-line initial (f. 1r); rubricated throughout.
The text block is wrapped in an early 11th-century fragment of a homiliary, preserving Augustine's Sermones in Vetero Testamento, Sermon 41, and his In Evangelium Johannis Tractatus, Tr. 24.
Origin: Written in Vigliano, Italy in the mid-15th century, with additions and emendations dated 1488 (f. 14r).
Folios 4 and 8 have been rewritten in a different hand, apparently with information added to the manuscript from another source; at the bottom of f. 4r is the inscription "Corector ego idem Ansermus Robusti." At the bottom of f. 14r Ansermus again signs his name, identifies himself as "rector in civitate Alexandrie" and gives the date 18 May 1488; he further notes that he extracted these...
Binding: 15th-century Italian half-calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

statutes

Statutes

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914711843503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jj9w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania