University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 346

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DS ID:

DS623

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 346

Title:

Edicts concerning Jews in Mantua.

Author:

Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1562-1612

Vincenzo Gonzaga WIKIDATA

Place:

Mantua

Mantua TGN

Date:

1594.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with some Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 20 leaves : paper ; 355 x 245 (278-282 x 195-205) mm bound to 355 x 255 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Mantua, dated 10 Nov. 1594 (f. 5r, 8v, 13v).
Layout: Written in 20 long lines, with initials and section numbers in the left margin.
Binding: Marbled paper over pasteboard.
Watermarks: Crown with countermark of IBC with 3-leaf clover above the B; flyleaves have 3 crescents above the word MEZZANA with countermark of the letter W topped with decorative flourishes.
Script: Written in an Italian cancellaresca script, signed in a different hand by Matthaeus Gentilis, ducal chancellor (f. 4v-5r, 8r-8v, 13v).
Collation: Paper, i + 20 + i; 1²⁰; 1-13, [14-20] (14-20 blank); contemporary foliation in arabic numerals in ink and modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on every page, lower right corner.
Ms. codex.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 Dec. 1999, lot 24, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

decrees

Manuscripts, Italian

Jews

Italy--Mantua

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949672393503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3p64s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania