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[Collection of laws, edicts, and proclamations].

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 734
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Penn Provenance:
  • Formerly owned by L. Panagathus (signature, f. [i] recto).
  • Sold by Bernard Rosenthal (New York), 1961.
Physical Description:
146 leaves : paper ; 306 x 205 (243 x 152) mm bound to 310 x 228 mm
Production:
[Lombardy], [after 1530]
Language Note:
Latin, with one document in French.
Summary:
Copies of documents include many dealing with military arrangements, some particularly against the Turks; law; decisions regarding pardons for individuals; religious dissent (goods and persons of "false Christians" may be seized, f. 14v; Lutherans to be arrested, f. 19v); privileges for the "Collegium germanicum" at Bologna (f. 20v); establishment of a medical faculty at Milan, "facultas creandi doctores in medicina" (f. 31r). The fact that one document is in French and that the notarial hand shows French characteristics, also the inclusion of some items relating to Switzerland (including one to Lausanne) make it appear likely that this manuscript was executed in the northwest of Lombardy. Prayer against the plague on last leaf.
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  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
  • Incipit: Carolus quintus augustus divina favente clementia Imperator Romanorum ac Germaniae ... (f. 5r).
  • Foliation: Paper, 146; [iv], 1-132, [133-142]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
  • Layout: Written in 37-38 long lines, with notes in the left margin.
  • Script: Written in one documentary hand through f. 131v, with additions in several hands; marginal notes in a different hand from text.
  • Decoration: Occasional line drawings in the margins: coat of arms (f. 29r, 61r), face (f. 32r), eagles (f. 130v).
  • Binding: Contemporary vellum.
  • Origin: Probably written in the northwest of Lombardy, after 1530 (f. 14v, 17v).
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. 39 (Ms. Latin 167).
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UPenn Ms. Codex 734
OCLC:
212375482

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