(Q2576)
Statements
Law Codex
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Part of the archive of Raffaello de’ Medici (1543-1628), of Florence; sale at Reiss & Sohn, Königstein, 21 October 2003, lot 647; bought by the Lilly Library from Quaritch, February 2004.
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s. XIII/XIV; 1290-1310
13. century
14. century
1290Gregorian
1310Gregorian
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s. XVI; 1500-1599
16. century
1500Gregorian
1599
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Binding: Bound in sixteenth-century limp parchment wrappers with fold-over flap, 5 tawed leather straps laced around the outside of the spine, the central strap extending to wrap right around the binding to a metal buckle at the center of the upper cover.
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Other decoration, Flyleaves: Paragraph-marks in alternating red and blue, 2-line initials in alternating blue with red penwork and red with purple penwork, a 4-line coloured initial in leafy design; upper cover of binding with central initial ‘D’ within decorative penwork and title at top in ornamental capitals “Giornale & ricordi”.
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Script, Flyleaves: Rounded Textura.
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Layout, Flyleaves: 2 columns, at least 71 lines, written in brown ink.
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Layout, ff. 1-150: Lacking 32 leaves at the beginning and 12 leaves elsewhere.
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Manuscript note: The volume was formerly a ledger in the vast sixteenth-century archives of the Medici family of Florence and it is a fine example of what are known as ‘account-book’ bindings; evidently only a few dozen pages were actually used, and these have now been removed.
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Flyleaves: Pecia note: correctus: hic finit lxxix pecia ‘checked: here ends pecia 79’.
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Flyleaves: Latin.
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ff. 1-150: Blank pages, a few dozen pages removed.
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ff. 1-150: Latin.
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Flyleaves: Book V, 14: 1-ix, Lectura; By lucky chance they include a pecia note, correctus: hic finit lxxix pecia ‘checked: here ends pecia 79’.
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Explicit, Flyleaves: Legem quam dixisti . . .: ista est lex secunda de pactis.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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