[Collection of laws for the use of the Podestà di Rovigo].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Murianus, Hieronymus, scribe.

Ravenoldus, Johannes Betrus, former owner.

Michieli, Gabriel, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Legal documents.

Local government--Law and legislation--Italy.

Local government.

Local government--Law and legislation.

Italy.

Rovigo (Italy : Province).

Veneto (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

laws (documents)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Johannes Betrus Ravenoldus (p. 175).

Formerly owned by Gabriel Michieli (p. 175).

Purchased from Ancora Gigli (Bologna, Italy).

Physical Description:

87 leaves : paper ; 235 x 168 (116 x 101) mm bound to 235 x 168 mm

Production:

[Rovigo, Italy], 1546.

Language Note:

Latin, with a few short sections in Italian (p. 169-174).

Summary:

A collection of administrative laws, regulations, and guidelines for the ruler of Rovigo, Italy.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Incipit: De modo administrationis Policinii (p. 2); Explicit: Iurasti bonorem, et proficuum, dominii nostri eundo, stando, et redeundo (p. 169).

Collation: Paper, 175; [2-175]; 1⁹(+9) 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁰ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁰ 7¹⁰ 8¹⁰ 9⁸ (+1, 2); catchwords on last verso of each quire. Link to collation model at end of record.

Pagination: Contemporary pagination in ink, 2-60, upper outer corners; modern pagination in pencil, 61-175, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 23 long lines, bounding lines ruled in lead.

Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Hieronymus Murianus.

Decoration: Red initials in left margins at the beginning of sections.

Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Rovigo, Italy, in 1546.

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), pp. 38-39 (Ms. Latin 166).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1219

OCLC:

233535632

Online:

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