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Statuta civitatis Castelli.

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Language:
Latin
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Penn Provenance:
  • Archivio Magherini Grazziani (from Rudolf Hirsch's notes).
  • Purchased, 1954.
Physical Description:
14 leaves : parchment ; 415 x 304 mm bound to 430 x 306 mm
Place of Publication:
[Città di Castello (Italy)], [between 1261 and 1273]
Language Note:
Latin.
Summary:
Statutes of Città di Castello, in Umbria in Italy. The first section is dated 1261 (f. 1r-5v); the second section contains additions by the same scribe, also dated 1261 (f. 5v-6v); the third section contains further statutes, dated 1273 (f. 7r-14v).
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from f. 3v and 7r.
  • 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). Link to collation model at end of record.
  • 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).
  • Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 13th century; f. 5v gives date of 1261; f. 7v gives 1273.
  • Incipit has faded; it would be legible under ultraviolet light.
  • Colophon (f. 5v-6r) gives the name of the notary and the date: Ego ho[norius?] sancti jacobi filius Monete ...
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 161 (Ms. Lea 64).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 80
OCLC:
155962299
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Collation model

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