University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 868

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1705

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 868

Title:

Book of deeds to various territorial acquisitions.

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

1598-1631.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 89 leaves : parchment ; 261 x 193 (203 x 135) mm bound to 274 x 196 mm

Former Owner(s):

Morbio, Carlo

Carlo Morbio WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Venice (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1598 (f. 1r) to 1631 (f. 82v).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 87 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1, 1-83, [84]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.
Binding: 17th-century morocco, gilt stamped.
The first copy in the collection is dated 1598, but the collection does not progress in chronological order, ranging back to 1508.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.
Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

notarial documents

codices (bound manuscripts)

legal documents

Manuscripts, European

deeds

Manuscripts, Latin

Italy--Monselice

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931780633503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jm23g7t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania