University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 61

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DS ID:

DS1561

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 61

Title:

Assizes of Romania.

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

[between 1500 and 1525]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 43 leaves : paper ; 283 x 193 (195 x 135) mm bound to 290 x 196 mm

Former Owner(s):

Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761

Giacomo Soranzo WIKIDATA

Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805

Matteo Luigi Canonici WIKIDATA

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from heading (f. 1r): Statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania (version on spine label: Statuti & usanz. dell' imp. di Roman.).
All of the leaves show water and mildew damage.
Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the early 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Title from f. [i] verso: Statuti dell'imperio Latino-Constantinopolitano. This is written in blue pencil in a later hand.
Heading on f. 1r: Questo sie libro de statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania ordinade et stabilide al tempo de li serenissimi signori conte balduini de fiandra misser Bonifacio marchese de monfera [i.e. Montferrata?]: misser Rigodandulo doxe de venexia: e molti altri baroni: In el tempo che fo conquestado lo imperio de Constantinopoli: MCIIII [sic; with small circles over the M, C and fourth I].
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 43 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-3¹⁰, 4¹², 5²; [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords written vertically, top to bottom, lower right corner of last verso of each quire.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Binding: 18th-century[?] Italian vellum over pasteboards. Endpapers have an imprinted design with gold leaf. (The binding is typical of Soranzo's books; see J. B. Mitchell, p. 130.). Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." Bodleian Lib. Record, v. VIII, no. 3, (February 1969), pp. 125-135.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by Matteo Canonici (according to J. B. Mitchell, some of Soranzo's manuscripts went to Sneyd via Canonici); sold from the Canonici collection to Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover), 1835.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 749.
Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo (typical Soranzo binding and spine label 601).
Sold by C. A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

statutes

Manuscripts, Italian

Crusades (Fourth) (1202-1204)

Byzantine Empire

History

Europe--Latin Empire, 1204-1261

Feudal law

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915806153503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34b2x47s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania