Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 23

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4361

Shelfmark:

LC 14 23

Title:

Tractatus de maleficiis (Treatise on evil deeds)

Author:

Gambiglioni, Angelo, active 15th century

Angelo Gambiglioni WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+200+i; 342 x 225 mm bound to 345x 244 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1852-1929

Hampton L. Carson WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Colophon tells that the scribe for fols. 1r-103r was Johannes Batista de Aversa who wrote the book for Franciscus de Berardis de Callio, judge and podestá of "Roche contracte" and that he completed this portion of the manuscript on 27 February 1460
Some loose leaves
At least seven scribal hands
Binding: Eighteenth-century half-calf binding, paste paper covers; stamped in gold on spine "DE GAMBIL. CRIMINAL ET MISC. LEG. CODEX A I 1460"
Layout: One column of forty-seven lines, lead point ruling; written area: 210 x 113 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda (ff. 1r-103r)
Script: Gothic--cursiva (fols. 103v-200r)
Decoration: One historiated initial (fol. 1r), initials in red, blue, and black with penwork decoration throughout, thirty-one marginal drawings in ink between fol. 3v and fol. 34r, occasional manicules throughout
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2015, no. 1.
Related resource: Thomas M. Izbicki and Patrick Lally, "Texts Attributed to Bartolus de Saxoferrato in North American Manuscript Collections," Manuscripta 35, 2 (1991), pp. 153-154.
Related resource: Domenico and Paola Maffei, Angelo Gambiglioni: Giureconsulto Aretino del quattrocento, le vita, i libri, le opera (Rome: Fondazione Sergio mochi onory per la storia del Diritto Italiano, 1994), p. 61.
Provenance: The colophon, fol. 103r, tells book was made for Franciscus de Berardis de Callio in 1460; coat of arms with monogram F.R., f. 1r.; Earl of Guilford (1830); Sir Thomas Phillipps ("5382Ph" in pencil on inside front cover and "Phillipps ms no. 5382" in pencil on fol. iii recto); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia (1913); given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; "G 206" on...

Keyword:

annotations

Law

Watermarks

Italian (culture or style)

manicules

Paper

Heraldry

Fifteenth century

Italy

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lc_14_23.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_23/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia