University of Pennsylvania, LJS 379
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS631
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 379
- Title:
- Edict concerning Jews in Livorno and Pisa.
- Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
- Place:
- Florence?, Italy
- Date:
- [after 1593]
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 12 leaves : parchment ; 257 x 200 (191 x 123) mm bound to 265 x 205 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Layout: Written in 22 long lines, ruled in drypoint, with clauses numbered in the left margin.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly in Florence, after the edict was issued in 1593.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, ii (contemporary paper) + 12 + ii (contemporary paper); 1-6²; [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords on some leaves, lower right verso (f. 2v-6v, 10v).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, with clause numbers and initials at the beginning of each clause in square capitals.
Decoration: Medici arms in ink (f. 1r); floral design in ink at end of text (f. 12r); inhabited 3-line initial in ink (f. 1v); simple 2-line initial in ink at the beginning of each clause.
Watermark: Sun in circle on flyleaves.
Binding: Contemporary Italian goatskin over pasteboard, blind-ruled, with one pair of linen ties and remnants of a second pair.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Arthur Kiron, Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections, Penn Libraries, 2011.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 19 May 2000, lot 229, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Prince Piero Ginori Conti, ms. 10375 (bookplate inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949857513503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33d2t/manifest
- Holding Institution:
