University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 80

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DS ID:

DS1673

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 80

Title:

Statuta civitatis Castelli.

Place:

Città di Castello (Italy)

Città di Castello TGN

Date:

[between 1261 and 1273]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : parchment ; 415 x 304 mm bound to 430 x 306 mm

Note:

Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 14 + i (modern paper); I³, II⁴; [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; single catchword in frame (f. 14v).
Colophon (f. 5v-6r) gives the name of the notary and the date: Ego ho[norius?] sancti jacobi filius Monete ...
Title from f. 3v and 7r.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in two columns of 50-55 lines; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by multiple hands, with marginalia and corrections also in various hands.
Binding: Vellum over cardboard, with ties woven through slits in front and back, 20th century; cover boards slightly warped, vellum split and peeling off boards around the edges.
Decoration: 2-line and 3-line initials in red and brown ink; extensive rubrication throughout; marginal drawing of two figures talking (f. 2v).
Incipit has faded; it would be legible under ultraviolet light.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 13th century; f. 5v gives date of 1261; f. 7v gives 1273.
Purchased, 1954.
Archivio Magherini Grazziani (from Rudolf Hirsch's notes).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

statutes

Law

Italy--Città di Castello

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915803883503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3b92z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania