University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 59

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DS ID:

DS1556

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 59

Title:

Capitolario de le parte et ordeni del officio di magistri signori tre savii areveder le raxon dela Illustrissima Signoria per conto del cancello de le 30 e 40 per cento.

Author:

Venice (Italy). Senato

Senate of the Republic of Venice WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

1519-1631.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian and Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 330 x 231 (259 x 160) mm bound to 346 x 236 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884

Edward Cheney WIKIDATA

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

John Ruskin WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Recto of front flyleaf contains the notation "2o" (with superscript "o").
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary parchment) + 64 + i (contemporary parchment); [ii], 1-16, 16, 19-63; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Folio 18 is lacking. The original numbers appear to be out of sequence; these have been corrected in a later hand. Folios 34-60 have traces of an earlier, separate numeration.
Script: Written in humanistic and cursive scripts by multiple hands.
Decoration: Illuminated foliate border, with the motto "Iustus Dominus edilexit iusticiam" in the margins, miniature of the lion of St. Mark, three coats of arms with the initials I. R., I. D. and F. P., and the date 11 January 1519 (f. 1r); decorated border, with two illuminated initials, a scroll with the illuminated motto "nomine dissimiles non mente", three coats of arms with initials A...
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Venice, from 1519 (f. 1r) to 1631 (f. 16r).
Formerly owned by Edward Cheney, (bookplate and note, inside upper cover: E.C. Venice, March 26, 1835, given to me by Rawdon Brown).
Sold by Maggs Bros., London, 1953.
Formerly owned by John Ruskin at Brantwood (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, European

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Statutes

Taxation

History

Italy--Venice

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914711863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zg6g76m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania