University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 71

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1621

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 71

Title:

Iuramentum capitulare, advocatorum per offitia rivoalti.

Author:

Venice (Italy)

Venice WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

[after 1526]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Some items in Latin, some in Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 15 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 205 x 142 (142 x 92) mm bound to 212 x 153 mm

Note:

Title from upper cover and caption title (f. 1r).
Origin: Written in Venice, 1526 or later; latest date given in the text is 18 July 1526 (f. 14v), but this is probably the date of the authorship of this section rather than the date of the copy.
Ms. codex.
Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Iuro Ego Advocator offitiorum rivoalti, ad sancti dei ... (f. 15r) de ovibus supra et in expensis: [followed by colophon].
Colophon (f. 15r): Marco Zeni provedador de [comuni?] [suprascripsi?]. Francesco Contarini provedador de [comuni?] [suprascripsi?].
Collation: Parchment, ii (contemporary paper) + 15 + ii (contemporary paper); [i]¹, 1-3², 4²(-1), [i]¹; [1-15]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a calligraphic humanistic book script by a single hand.
Decoration: Illuminated inital "I" on blue background with white highlights (f. 1r); illuminated border with green vines gold leaves, with four coats of arms in lower margin (f. 1r); these might be the coats of arms of the four holders of the office at the date of the writing of the manuscript, though none appears to be the coat of arms of the Zeni or Contarini families. Red is used throughout...
Binding: Limp vellum, with title in red on front. Medallion on front cover decorated with lion of St. Mark, in blue and red. The cover also contains a small leaf design in green and gold, and an inscription in red giving the title. Venice, ca. 1526 or later; inscription on cover written in same hand as the text.
Sold by Davis and Orioli (Cat. 159, no. 94), 1958.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

oaths

Manuscripts, Italian

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Obligations (Law)

Italy--Venice

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915806193503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3c93n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania