Assise del alta corte del regno di Hierusalem et Cypro, tradutte da francese in lingua italiana, de ordine dela ser[enissi]mo ducal signoria de Venetia / per mé Florio Bustron.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Giovanni, di Ibelin, 13th century.

Contributor:

Bustron, Florio, approximately 1500-1570, translator.

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Luke, Harry, Sir, 1884-1969, former owner.

Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979, donor.

Standardized Title:

Livre des assises

Language:

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Courts--Jerusalem--History--Sources.

Courts.

Feudal law--Jerusalem--Sources.

Feudal law.

Law--Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom).

Law.

Procedure (Law)--Jerusalem--History--Sources.

Procedure (Law).

History.

Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244--Sources.

Jerusalem.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (armorial bookplate, motto La vertu est la seule noblesse, inside upper cover).

Sold at auction as part of the collection of the late Earl of Guilford, Part 1, by R. H. Evans (London), 15-24 December 1828, lot 403.

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his ms. 5684.

Sold at auction as part of the Phillipps collection, 19 May 1913, lot 656.

Formerly owned by Sir Harry Luke (pencil note, Bought by H. Luke, 1912 or 1913, front flyleaf verso).

Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1957 (library bookplate, inside front cover).

Physical Description:

349 leaves : paper ; 300 x 215 (223 x 145) mm bound to 314 x 220 mm

Production:

[Cyprus or Venice?], 1533.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Translation from the French text of Jean d'Ibelin, by Florio Bustron (cf. f. 23v). The date of this manuscript, before the printing of 1535, suggests that this may be the holograph of Florio Bustron.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 23v) and Zacour-Hirsch; abbreviated title on f. 18r.

Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 349 + i (17th-century paper); [1-349]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in an italic or humanistic cursive script by one hand, with notes in a second hand dated 1535 (f. 23r-v, f. 349).

Binding: 17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); spine label with gilt title Assise o sia dell'alt. cort. di Hier. e Cipr., MS.

Origin: Written in Cyprus or Venice, 3 January 1533 (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 148 (Ms. Lea 9).

Cited as:

Giovanni di Ibelin, Assise del alta corte del regno di Hierusalem et Cypro (Ms. Codex 492). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155965260