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Laws And Statutes Of Pisa
Italy, [between 1200 and 1215]
ff. i + 62 + i + i : parchment ; 275 x 183 (185 x 117) mm.
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Details
Title
Laws and statutes of Pisa.
Created
Italy, [between 1200 and 1215]
Physical Description
ff. i + 62 + i + i : parchment ; 275 x 183 (185 x 117) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written by three scribes in well formed bookhands. Scribe 1: ff. 1v (1r erased)-20r; Scribe 2: ff. 20r-38v; Scribe 3: ff. 39r-62v.
Decorative initial, 7-line, f. 1r, in red and black with simple foliage designs in interior; red initial, 4-line, at beginning of art. 3, f. 18v; rubrics throughout, some perpendicular to text in margins. Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and paragraph marks, in red; on f. 15v only, two initials, 1-line, and paragraph mark in blue. Guide-letters for rubricator in gutter or margins.
Folio 1r almost entirely erased and illegible.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound with reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards. Paper label, with title "Statuta Civitatis Pisanae An. 1186" written in ink on spine.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Access and use
Restricted material. May not be seen without the permission of the appropriate curator.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of the earliest known redaction of the Constituta legis et usus of Pisa, issued ca. 1146-56.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 81, no. 148 (while in the possession of T. E. Marston). Exhibition Catalogue: W. Cahn and J. Marrow, eds., "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection," Yale University Library Gazette 52 (1978), pp. 188-89, no. 16. T. E. Marston, "The Earliest Known Laws of an Italian City State," Homage to a Bookman. Essays...for H. P. Kraus (Berlin, 1967) pp. 109-12, with pl. of f. 7r.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 02, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 415.
Laws and Statutes of Pisa. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Laws and Statutes of Pisa. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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