University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 61
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1561
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 61
- Title:
- Assizes of Romania
- Place:
- Venice?
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1525
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- paper
- 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
Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805
Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title from heading (f. 1r): Statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania (version on spine label: Statuti & usanz. dell' imp. di Roman.).
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.
Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the early 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
All of the leaves show water and mildew damage.
Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo (typical Soranzo binding and spine label 601).
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.
Sold by C. A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915806153503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34b2x47s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
