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Statuta civilia causarum civitatis Comi / elargita a D. Sebastiano Perto.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 576
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Como (Italy)--History.
- Como (Italy).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- statutes
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased, 1960.
- Physical Description:
- 135 leaves : paper
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1675 and 1725]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Begins with Rubrica statutoru novoru ... (detailed table of contents), [p. iii-xii], ends with a month-by-month list of local feast days and movable feasts, p. 218-222.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from p. iii, with attribution "elargita a D. Sebastiano Perto"[in a second hand] from p. i.
- Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 135; [xxviii], 1-222, [223-242]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corner.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
- Decoration: Rubricated headings and initials throughout.
- Binding: Contemporary vellum.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th or early 17th century (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. 172 (Ms. Lea 118).
- L. Fontana, I, pp. 377-381, especially p. 379, describes several manuscripts in private hands of which one might be identical with this manuscript.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 576
- OCLC:
- 155966735
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