Assizes of Romania. (DS1561) (Q9093)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9915806153503681, Oversize Ms. Codex 61)
- Liber consuetudinum Imperii Romaniae.
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Assizes of Romania. (DS1561) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9915806153503681, Oversize Ms. Codex 61) |
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Liber consuetudinum Imperii Romaniae.
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Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761
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Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805
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Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
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Latin Empire, 1204-1261--Statutes
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[between 1500 and 1525]
16. century
1500Gregorian
1525Gregorian
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Extent: 43 leaves : paper ; 283 x 193 (195 x 135) mm bound to 290 x 196 mm
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Title from heading (f. 1r): Statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania (version on spine label: Statuti & usanz. dell' imp. di Roman.).
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All of the leaves show water and mildew damage.
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Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the early 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Ms. codex.
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Title from f. [i] verso: Statuti dell'imperio Latino-Constantinopolitano. This is written in blue pencil in a later hand.
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Heading on f. 1r: Questo sie libro de statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania ordinade et stabilide al tempo de li serenissimi signori conte balduini de fiandra misser Bonifacio marchese de monfera [i.e. Montferrata?]: misser Rigodandulo doxe de venexia: e molti altri baroni: In el tempo che fo conquestado lo imperio de Constantinopoli: MCIIII [sic; with small circles over the M, C and fourth I].
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Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 43 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-3¹⁰, 4¹², 5²; [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords written vertically, top to bottom, lower right corner of last verso of each quire.
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Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
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Binding: 18th-century[?] Italian vellum over pasteboards. Endpapers have an imprinted design with gold leaf. (The binding is typical of Soranzo's books; see J. B. Mitchell, p. 130.). Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." Bodleian Lib. Record, v. VIII, no. 3, (February 1969), pp. 125-135.
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Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Formerly owned by Matteo Canonici (according to J. B. Mitchell, some of Soranzo's manuscripts went to Sneyd via Canonici); sold from the Canonici collection to Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover), 1835.
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Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 749.
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Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo (typical Soranzo binding and spine label 601).
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Sold by C. A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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