Statutes. (DS1577) (Q9141)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9924874513503681, Oversize Ms. Codex 665)
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Statutes. (DS1577)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9924874513503681, Oversize Ms. Codex 665)

    Statements

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    Extent: 21 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 323 x 232 (240 x 168) mm bound to 332 x 236 mm
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    parchment, color illustrations
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Origin: Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386.
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    Ms. codex.
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    Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.
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    Foliation: Parchment, 21 + i (paper); [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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    Layout: Written in 40 long lines; ruled in ink.
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    Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
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    Decoration: 11-line initial depicting a ship without sails held up by two angels, in red, blues, lavender, brown, and gold. In a colored border at the bottom of the page is the coat of arms of a branch of the Malespina family, surrounded by two angels (f. 1r). Initials in alternating red and blue (f. 1r-9r), two with penwork ornamentation (f. 5r); initials are unfinished in the remainder of...
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    Binding: 18th-century vellum.
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    Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.
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    Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
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    Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
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    Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.
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    19 September 2023
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    19 September 2023
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