(Q9582)
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Città di Castello (Italy)--Politics and government--History
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Città di Castello (Italy)--History--Sources
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Latin, with many 16th- and 17th-century entries and marginalia in Italian
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[14--]
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 19 leaves : parchment ; 318 x 239 mm
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Signatures: Contemporary arabic numerals, lower left corner, first recto of quire. The two extant quires (second and third fragments) have the signatures 3 and 4.
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Some worm holes in first fragment.
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Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Ms. codex.
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Collation: Paper, 19; 1¹²(-10), [2⁸], 3-4⁸; [2?], 11, 21-37; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Quire 2 is missing, as is all but one bifolium of quire 1. References in this record are to contemporary foliation.
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Script: Written in Gothic cursive and humanistic scripts by many different hands. Much of the text has faded and is difficult to read.
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Decoration: Some use of red and blue ink (f. 2r-2v); manicules (f. 29r); notarial signets (f. 29r, 29v).
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First fragment is a single bifolium; its first folio (f. 2 of the manuscript) is torn in half vertically. The second and third fragments are quires. Original cover was limp vellum; only the back is extant (= f. 37). All the fragments are wrapped in two 19th-century paper leaves.
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Extant second folio bears the contemporary folio number 11. This was probably f. 11 of the first quire, presumably a quire of six bifolia. The conjoint of f. 11 (i.e., the extant first folio) would thus have been f. 2 of the manuscript. The remaining two quires are numbered f. 21-36, and the extant back cover is numbered f. 37. Thus one quire of 4 bifolia (8 f.) is missing, in addition to...
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Origin: Written in Città di Castello (Italy) in the early and late 15th century, with some 16th- and 17th-century notes, additions and marginalia.
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Purchased, 1954.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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